alew

English

Etymology

Imitative. Compare halloo.

Noun

alew (plural alews)

(obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.6:
  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

Romanization of 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅

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