alew

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noun

A cry of despair.

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Meanings

nounalew (plural alews)

plural alews

  1. obsoleterareA cry of despair.

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

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

Imitative. Compare halloo.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

alew. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alew

MLA

“alew.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alew. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “alew,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alew.

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