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Examples
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Big boat -- full o 'passengers and valuable cargo -- shoals to looward of him -- can't steer.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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"You pass to looward o 'me when we meet, or I'll make you jump overboard!"
The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888
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Vesp and I, we work the printing-press together, an 'so order him to looward, not to taint our Otaheitans, that stink of ile at home, but I had 'em biled before I'd buy 'em, an' now they're vilets.
Foul Play Charles Reade 1849
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The standard nautical pronunciation (in British English) of leeward is looward.
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Yet it never occurred to me that the wonderful and technically correct marines hanging on his walls were due to anything but the artist's conscientious study of his subject, and only his casual mispronounciation of the word "leeward," which landsmen pronounce as spelled, but which rolls off the tongue of a sailor, be he former dock rat or naval officer, as "looward," and his giving the long sounds to the vowels of the words "patent" and "tackle," that induced me to ask if he had ever been to sea.
The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888
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"Of course it's hot," said Dick, "if you stick to looward of the fire.
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"We could not help them; she was a Yankee craft, and there was not a life buoy or belt on board; and who, with another big wave coming, would swim down to looward with a line?
The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888
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