Meanings
adjectivegone aloft (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving passed away.
Our dear jackdaw had "gone aloft" long before this, I grieve to say; and our sorrow was a common one shared by the whole settlement.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 115
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