1568, The Bannatyne Manuscript, quoted in 1928, William Tod Ritchie, The Bannatyne Manuscript Written in Tyme of Pest, 1568:
[…] takis my schip in chairge Mon hald hir Clynlie trym & ticht Se that hir hatchis be handlit richt Wt steirburd baburd luf & lie scho will sale all ...
1887, Alexander Montgomerie, The Poems of Alexander Montgomerie, page 209:
On baburd syde, the vhirling of the sand; On steirbuird syd, the roks lay off the land.
1821, Alexander Montgomerie, David Irving, The poems of Alexander Montgomery: with biogr. notices, by D. Irving, page 238:
Fra that we come this gredy gulph within, We micht not heir ane other, for the din, On baburd syde, the vhirling of the sand; On steirbuird syd, the roks lay off the land.
