"aloose" meaning in English

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Adverb

Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} aloose (not comparable)
  1. (dialect) Free from restraints. Tags: dialectal, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-aloose-en-adv-Nd1xGrqh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1922, John Preston White, The Texas Criminal Reports",
          "text": "The reason she got to him quicker than I did is because Mooring did not turn me aloose as quick as Cox turned her aloose.",
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          "ref": "1968, North Carolina reports - Volume 273, page 511",
          "text": "There's nothing but young girls live over there, work around the . . . Capitol buildings, State buildings . . . they were screaming that they had called the police, to turn me aloose. He turned my left hand aloose and started — he dropped it down on my leg.",
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          "ref": "1974, Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus; Tales, page 167",
          "text": "Dey wuz constant a-gwine on data a-way, en ef I wa'n't gittin' so mighty weak-kneed in de membunce I'd bust aloose yer en I'd fair wake you up wid de gwines on er dem ar creeturs.",
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          "ref": "2006, Mary Monroe, God Don't Like Ugly",
          "text": "It took the undertaker and that big old strappin' teenage boy of his quite a while to pull him aloose.",
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