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a⋅loft

  [uh-lawft, uh-loft]
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–adverb
1. high up; far above the ground.
2. Nautical.
a. on the masts; in the rigging; overhead.
b. (on a square-rigged sailing ship) in the upper rigging, specifically, on or above the lower yards (opposed to alow ).
3. in or into the air.
–preposition
4. on or at the top of: flags flying aloft the castle.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME o loft; < ON ā lopt in the air; see a- 1 , loft
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a·loft   (ə-lôft', ə-lŏft')   
adv.  

  1. In or into a high place; high or higher up.

  2. Nautical At or toward the upper rigging.

prep.  On or above: birds perching aloft telephone wires.

[Middle English, from Old Norse ā lopt : ā, in; see an- in Indo-European roots + lopt, air.]
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Word Origin & History

aloft 
c.1200, from O.N. a lopti "up above," lit. "up in the air," from a "in, on" + lopt "sky, loft" (cf. Goth. luftus, O.H.G. luft, O.E. lyft "air").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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