abrest

English

Adverb

abrest (not comparable)

  1. (archaic or nonstandard) Alternative spelling of abreast
    • 1885, John McElroy, The Red Acorn‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:
      Eleven hundred superb young fellows, marching four abrest, with bayonets fixed …
    • 1994 February 28, “Networking Careers On-line”, in Network World‎, volume 11, number 9, IDG, ISSN 0887-7661, page 56:
      … was designed to provide you with the information you need to keep abrest of current opportunities …
    • 1998, Bernard DeVoto, quoting Boit, 1792, The Course of Empire‎, Reprint edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
      This day saw an appearance of a spacious harbour abrest the Ship, haul'd our wind …
    • 2006, Helen Lee, Where in the World?: Stories from Everywhere‎, Review and Herald Pub Assoc, →ISBN, page 316:
      He read the words scribbled under the star: "Stand abrest qurtsbolder bring in line with hill … "
    • 2007, Nirali Prakashan, Corporate Planning and Strategic Human Resources Management‎, First edition, →ISBN, page 3.8:
      Keeping abrest of technological developments requires a careful assessment …

References

  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, abrest

Anagrams

Middle English

Etymology

From "on brest" or a- +‎ brest

Adverb

abrest

  1. side by side
    Owt they Comen Al On Abrest. — The History of the Holy Grail, Henry Lovelich, 1450

References

  • Middle English Dictionary
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