down alongadv.n.adj.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxxvi. f. cxli^v/2 The normans fro agaynst Mounte saynte Mychell, and downe alonge to Depe to saynt Valery and to Croty, were nat well assured wherto they shuld take hede.

1539 Bible (Great) Num. xxiv. 12 And then go downe alonge by Iordane, and leaue at the salte see.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvi. 250 Bernitia beareth through the spacious Yorkish bounds, From Durham down along to the Lancastrian Sounds.

1758 J. Holt Jrnl. 9 Oct. in New Eng. Hist. & Geneal. Reg. (1856) 10 310 Capt. Osgood got leave of the Doctor to go down along.

1846 ‘J. Treenoodle’ Specimens Cornish Provinc. Dial. 40 I wish thee bean't abruis'd, Thee down along ded'st come to shop By roaad that esn't used.

1848 J. Mitchell Gloss. Nantucketisms in Amer. Speech (1935) 10 40/2 Down-a-long, on change, or in some resort near the wharves.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 260 Down along, sailing coastways down Channel.

1871 G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sketches (ed. 3) 91 Down-along, the local expression for going down a street or road. ‘A't thee gwāyne down-along or up-along?’

1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 95 I expected 'en here jest aater dinner, but a dedn't come; but a zaamered downalong about dree o'clock.

1899 Morning Post 12 July 8/3 At Trelyon St. Ives begins for the average well-to-do visitor, descending ‘downalong’ by many stages until it ends in the fishing quarter.

1905 E. Phillpotts Secret Woman iii. xiii. 378 Henceforth I shall come down-along once a year to visit you.

1906 Temple Bar July 430 ‘He ain't at the house, I tell 'ee. He went down-along,’ pointing down the lane.

1936 M. R. Dacombe (title) Dorset up along and down along: a collection of history, tradition, folk lore, flower names and herbal lore.

1955 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 13 Sept. 16/1 Shooting is excellent out west of town and down along toward Sasabe.

1960 Mariner's Mirror 56 220 Many Appledore vessels traded down along to the Cornish beaches.

1835 Archit. Mag. July 329 I know all the others are what are termed ‘downalongs’ about Bristol; that is, natives of that part of Devonshire [sc. Exeter].

1935 Catholic World Sept. 692/1 The Cornishman himself is a ‘downalong’.

1951 Daily Mail 27 Aug. 2/4 Some ‘down-alongs’, when fishing looked grim, went into the visitor business and skipped ‘up-along’.

1870 C. Kingsley in Good Words Mar. 203/1 Their [sc. Cornish miners'] faces lighted up at the old pass-word of ‘Down-Along’; for whosoever knows Down-Along, and the speech thereof, is at once a friend and a brother.

1894 Q. Rev. Apr. 434 Whoever hails from ‘down along’ is welcome, provided his West-country burr satisfies the well-known Shibboleth.

1902 E. Philpotts River ii. xiii. 313 Seen from downalong, as you looks up the valley, 'tis for all the world like a face.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 18 Dec. 4/2 In his ‘Devonshire Characters’..there is a true tang of ‘Down-along’ in every page.

1951 Daily Mail 27 Aug. 2/3 But ‘down-along’ is still a fishing town.

2016 G. Knight Swordfish & Star 129 He sold off every granite fisherman's cottage, every whitewashed pilchard cellar and net loft in Downalong.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Down-along-volk, the ‘down-along-folk,’ i.e. the inhabitants of Dorset and the West.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 12 Jan. 3/3 The people of the ‘down-along’ country are slow in putting thoughts into words.

1922 D. J. Gass (title) Down-along Talks.

1951 Daily Mail 27 Aug. 2/3 I bet the ‘down-along’ folk are as healthy as those who live in 12-to-an-acre council houses.

2017 D. Hendrickson Naut. Newburyport viii. 88 For the greater part of his life Captain Stone was an up-alonger on Harris Street and cashier of the Merchants Bank, not a down-along sailor.