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Meaning of come aloft | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To mount sexually; to have an erection.

obsolete, slang

Examples

“his louely wife emongst them lay, / Embraced of a Satyre rough and rude, / Who all the night did minde his ioyous play: / Nine times he heard him come aloft ere day, / That all his hart with gealosie did swell; / But yet that nights ensample did bewray, / That not for nought his wife them loued so well, / When one so oft a night did ring his matins bell.”
“Fowler: I must kiss her:–(kisses her) – thou hast a down lip, and dost twang it handsomely; now to the business. Penelope: This is not all I look for. Fowler (aside): She will not tempt me to come aloft, will she?”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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