forrud

Pass the word forrud for the bosun -- where is he? "

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

Run up our ensign, Mr Dort, "he added to Eric, who stood at his station on the lee side of the mizzen mast;" an 'tell 'em to fire the gun forrud, jest to give 'em a kinder sort o' salute, you know.

Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

"Anybody hurt?" sang out, presently, the officer commanding the ship from the bridge, near the conning tower, where he had been directing her steering -- "Anybody hurt there, forrud?"

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

"Ay, ay, sir," roared back the lookout; "they're right abreast of our forrud funnel now, sir."

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

Well, this cow was first stowed away in a pen the admiral had rigged up for her on the starboard side of the main deck, forrud; but on the gunner objecting to the mess the animal made there, she was then shifted to the port side, in the middle of the mess deck of the foretopmen.

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

"Stand by, the watch forrud!" he sang out, in a voice of thunder, putting his hands to his mouth so as to form a speaking-trumpet, as he leant against the poop rail, and pitching his key so high that his order triumphed over the noise of both wind and sea.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

"Me go forrud to clean de fis 'for breakfus, an' w'en um come back in galley, dere I see dat hangman tief takin 'de coffee, an' den --"

The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

"The sick-bay's away there forrud on the starboard side; and if you're spry and pass the doctor soon, before the bugle sounds for ` cooks to their messes, 'why, you'll be able to eat your first meal at Her Majesty's expense, my lads, afore you're a day older."

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

"Right you air, boss," said Seth, wading into the streamlet without any more ado as he spoke; "my motter's allers to go forrud, so I reckon I'll take tother side of this air stream ahead, an 'you ken settle yerselves on this."

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

"Well, sir, the cap'en say it's by the rudder-post; but I myself thinks it's amidships or else forrud: I'd have looked, but I couldn't shift the cargo without help."

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887