/əˈland/
OriginFrom Middle English aland, alond, alonde, o lande, from Old English on lande (“on land”), equivalent to a- + land.
- not-comparable, obsoleteOn dry land, as opposed to in the water.
“I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea […] Why, as Men doe a-land.”
- archaic, not-comparable, poeticTo the land; ashore.
“Henry the Eighth […] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge […]”