Glew vs Alew - What's the difference?
glew | alew |
As nouns the difference between glew and alew is that glew is while alew is (obsolete|rare) a cry of despair.
glew English
Noun
* 1764 , Edmund Burke, Dodsley's annual register: Volume 1758, Part 1 (page 385)
- When the painting is originally on wood, it must be first detached from the ceiling or wainscot where it was fixed; and the surface of it covered with a linen cloth, cemented to it by means of glew
( Webster 1913)
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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. |
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