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comes aloft

comes aloft is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 comes aloft

What is comes aloft the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Comes aloft is the third-person singular simple present indicative of come aloft.

Words near comes aloft in the dictionary

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

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