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came aloft

came aloft is the simple past of come aloft.

Meaning of come aloft

Verb

come aloft (third-person singular simple present comes aloft, present participle coming aloft, simple past came aloft, past participle come aloft)

  1. (obsolete, slang) To mount sexually; to have an erection.
    • his louely wife emongst them lay, / Embraced of a Satyre rough and rude, / Who all the night did minde his ioyous play: / Nine times he heard him come aloft ere day, / That all his hart with gealosie did swell; / But yet that nights ensample did bewray, / That not for nought his wife them loued so...1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about came aloft

What is came aloft the simple past of?
Came aloft is the simple past of come aloft.

Words near came aloft in the dictionary

  1. came about
  2. came across
  3. came across with
  4. came after
  5. came alive
  6. came aloft
  7. came along
  8. came and went
  9. came apart
  10. came apart at the seams
  11. came around

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