alew

English

Etymology

Imitative. Compare halloo.

Noun

alew (plural alews)

1. (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Yet did she not lament with loude alew, / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.

Anagrams

• e-law, lawe, wale, weal

Gothic

Romanization

alew

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅