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coming aloft

coming aloft is the present participle and gerund 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 coming aloft

What is coming aloft the present participle and gerund of?
Coming aloft is the present participle and gerund of come aloft.

Words near coming aloft in the dictionary

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

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