come aloft

verb

To mount sexually; to have an erection.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person comes aloft · participle present coming aloft · past came aloft

  1. obsoleteslangTo mount sexually; to have an erection.

    Fowler: I must kiss her:–(kisses her) – thou hast a down lip, and dost twang it handsomely; now to the business. Penelope: This is not all I look for. Fowler (aside): She will not tempt me to come aloft, will she?

    1633, James Shirley, The Witty Fair One, IV.iv
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    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 well, / When one so oft a night did ring his matins bell.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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