first num Cp EDD go v 1 (6) the first go-off 'beginning, outset.' Phr first along/first going off: in the beginning; at first; cp LAST a: last going off.
   1858 [LOWELL] i, 199 'Izik,' I says, as soon as ever I could speak—for I was dumb-foundered entirely, first goun off... 1924 ENGLAND 63 I'll get ye a rope an' gaff, me son, an ye can go on ice alang o' me, killin' swiles... Ye mightn't like dat, first-alang, an' it might putt ye in a fluster. T 181/2-65 An' first along, when there was no wheels—I was never into one (without wheels).

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