alow

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈləʊ/

Probably a reduced form of on low.

alow (not comparable)

1. (now chiefly Scotland) Low down. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.8:

     Sometimes aloft he layd, sometimes alow, / Now here, now there, and oft him neare he mist […].

2. (nautical) Towards the lower part of a vessel; towards the lower rigging or the decks. [from 16th c.]
   • 1859, James Fenimore Cooper, The Red Rover: A Tale:

     I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft?

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 26,

     Ay, Ay, Ay, all is up; and I must up too / Early in the morning, aloft from alow.

alow

1. (Scotland) Below.

• aloft

a- +‎ low, from low (“flame”).

alow (not comparable)

1. (Scotland) alight; ablaze

• AWOL, awol