airly

English

Adverb

airly (comparative airlier, superlative airliest)

1. (dialectal) early
   • 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes‎^[1]:

     The winter had set in airly, and the snow had lain deep for months, and the game of the woods had got pretty well starved out.

   • 1887, Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker‎^[2]:

     Ye're up airly the mornin'.

   • 1921, Nellie L. McClung, Purple Springs‎^[3]:

     "They're comin' airly," said John Watson, slowly, as he shook down the bag of seed wheat that he had just filled; "but I guess they are the best judge of whether they can make a livin' outside any longer."

Anagrams

• lairy, riyal