forrard
forrard adverb: forward.
Adverb
forrard (not comparable)
- Forward.
- Here and there an adventurous genius coins a phrase for the benefit of posterity,--as we once heard a mate order a couple of men to "go forrard and trim the ship's whiskers," to the utter bewilderment of his captain, who, in thirty years' following of the sea, had never heard the martingale chains...1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858
- Off, here, Masser Mile--larboard bow, well forrard; look sharp and soon see him, yourself, sir."1863, James Fenimore Cooper, Miles Wallingford
Adjective
forrard
Examples of forrard in a sentence
- The old chap who had just come off the look-out, had returned forrard again, and I was alone on that part of the deck.1909, William Hope Hodgson, The Ghost Pirates:
- ‘No sneaking forrard for a fag out of watch.’1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 61:
Forms of forrard
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Questions about forrard
- What does forrard mean?
- Forrard means forward.
- How do you use forrard in a sentence?
- The old chap who had just come off the look-out, had returned forrard again, and I was alone on that part of the deck.
- What part of speech is forrard?
- Forrard can be an adverb or an adjective.
Words near forrard in the dictionary
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