aho-o-y

Updated: May 11, 2025

By and by, bang, bang, bang, on the scuttle, ``All ha-a-ands, aho-o-y! We spring out of our berths, clap on a monkey-jacket and southwester, and tumble up the ladder. Mate up before us, and on the forecastle, singing out like a roaring bull; the captain singing out on the quarter-deck, and the second mate yelling, like a hyena, in the waist.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

"Better strike her, and go to pieces alongside, than miss her and drift past. Make ready now to hail her all together one, two, three! Bark aho-o-y! Stand by to throw us a line!" But no sound came from the huge black shadow under the pitching lantern save the deep bass roar of the storm through the cordage.

George Kennan - Tent Life in Siberia