aleft
English
Etymology
Adverb
aleft (not comparable)
- (archaic) To or on the left-hand side.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
- Once more away! and now
The long descent is seen,
A long, long, narrow path.
Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow,
Aleft the giddy precipice.
- Once more away! and now
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer: