As a verb alee
is .
As a noun alew is
(obsolete|rare) a cry of despair.
alee
English
Adverb
(
en adverb)
On the lee side of a ship; to leeward.
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alew
English
Noun
(
en noun)
(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.