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/əbrˈɛst/ Listen

adverb

Abreast adv.

Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast."

(Naut.) Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; with of.

Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of (or with) the present state of science.

At the same time; simultaneously. (Obs.) "Abreast therewith began a convocation."

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... first staircase with surprising rapidity, leaving his pursuers behind; and when he had gained the first landing, he turned upon those who pursued him, who could hardly follow him two abreast. ...

— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest

... narrow canal as they advanced, obliging them to brace the yards to clear the impending ice-walls, and they shaved the large berg so closely that the port quarter-boat would have been crushed if it had not been taken from the davits. Five minutes of such travelling brought them abreast of a grounded berg, to which they resolved to make fast. The order was given to cast off the rope. Away went their white tug on his race to the far north, and the ship swung round in safety under the lee of the berg, where the crew acknowledged with gratitude their merciful deliverance ...

— The World of Ice • Robert Michael Ballantyne

... vessel was driven inland, Tell perceived a solitary table rock and called aloud the rowers to redouble their efforts, till they should have passed the precipice ahead. At the instant they came abreast this point he snatched his bow from the plank, where it was lying forgotten during the storm, and, turning the helm suddenly toward the rock, he sprang lightly on shore, scaled the mountain, and was out of sight and beyond reach of pursuit, before any on board ...

— Heroes Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... still all this time. The ground was a little clearer where they had met, and they had been able to stroll on abreast, though scarcely noticing they were moving. And now they were but a short way from ...

— Miss Mouse and Her Boys • Mrs. Molesworth

... schools and a few learned doctors amongst the priests. The houses are only one story high, but some few have a room over a magazine; they are built of stones and mortar, and some of wood or straw. The streets are narrow, few of them admit of the passage of two camels abreast. Several covered bazaars are built for merchandize. There are no native manufactures of consequence. Timbuctoo is properly a commercial depôt or emporium. The principal medium of exchange is salt, which is very inconvenient. The grand desideratum of merchants is ...

— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson

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