lay forward
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He lay forward cramping himself against the line with all of his body, putting all his weight onto his right hand, and he was asleep.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
Then the starboard watch board the main tack, and the larboard watch lay forward and board the fore tack and haul down the jib sheet, clapping a tackle upon it if it blows very fresh.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
I lay forward, and my uncle behind me in such a position that he could see hardly anything of our flight.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
To come or go; as, lay aloft, lay forward, lay aft, lay out.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Then the starboard watch board the main tack, and the larboard watch lay forward and board the fore tack and haul down the jib sheet, clapping a tackle upon it, if it blows very fresh.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
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