Definition of "aland"

aland

/əˈland/

adverb
not comparable
1. (obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water.
  Quotations
  I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea […] Why, as Men doe a-land.
  c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]
2. (now rare, poetic) To the land; ashore.
  Quotations
  Henry the Eighth […] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge […]
  c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846