land-lubber

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• land-lubber

  A useless longshorer; a vagrant stroller. Applied by sailors to the mass of landsmen, especially tho...

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• lubber-land

  A kind of El Dorado in sea-story, or country of pleasure without work, all sharing alike. ...

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• Lubber

  ·noun A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. ...

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• lubber

  An awkward fellow: a name given by sailors to landsmen. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• lubber

  A sturdy drone; an idle, fat, bulky fellow.--Johnson. A name given by sailors to landsmen.--Grose, D...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lubber

  , or lubbart. An awkward unseamanlike fellow; from a northern word implying a clownish dolt. A boa...

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• Land

  ·noun The ground or floor. II. Land ·noun The inhabitants of a nation or people. III. Land ·noun U...

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• land

  How lies the land? How stands the reckoning? Who has any land in Appleby? a question asked the man a...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• land

  1) a division in ploughing. N. 2) urine ; to lant or leint ale, to put urine into it to make it str...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• land

  In a general sense denotes terra firma, as distinguished from sea; but, also, land-laid, or to lay t...

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• abbey-lubber

  This is an old term of reproach for idleness, and is here quoted only as bearing upon the nautical l...

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• Land League

  ·add. ·- In Ireland, a combination of tenant farmers and other, organized, with Charles Stewart Parn...

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• Land-poor

  ·adj Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. ...

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• Table-land

  ·noun A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau. ...

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• land lopers

  Vagabonds lurking about the country who subsist by pilfering. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• land lubbers

  Vagabonds lurking about the country who subsist by pilfering. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• land pirates

  Highwaymen. ...

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• louse land

  Scotland. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• scratch land

  Scotland. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• banana-land

  n. slang name for Queensland,where bananas grow in abundance. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to re-land

  To go on shore after having embarked.--Webster. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• land-loper

  (Dutch, landlooper.) A vagrant; one who strolls about the country.--Bailey's Dict. Applied by sailor...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• burthensome-land

  land that yields good crops in general. York. Bus, to bus, to dress. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• catch-land

  land which is not certainly known to what parish it belongs, and the minister that first gets the ti...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• old land

  ground that has lain long untilled, and just ploughed up. The same in Essex is called new lands. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• ope-land

  ground ploughed up every year ; ground that is loose and open. S. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• double-land

  That appearance of a coast when the sea-line is bounded by parallel ranges of hills, rising inland o...

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• drowned land

  Extensive marshes or other water-covered districts which were once dry and sound land. ...

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• land-blink

  On Arctic voyages, a peculiar atmospheric brightness on approaching land covered with snow; usually ...

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• land-breeze

  A current of air which, in the temperate zones, and still more within the tropics, regularly sets fr...

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• land-fall

  Making the land. "A good land-fall" signifies making the land at or near the place to which the cour...

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• land-feather

  A sea-cove. ...

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• land ho!

  The cry when land is first seen. ...

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• land-ice

  Flat ice connected with the shore, within which there is no channel. ...

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• land-louper

  [Dutch.] Meaning he who flies from this country for crime or debt, but not to be confounded with l...

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• land-sharks

  Crimps, pettifogging attorneys, slopmongers, and the canaille infesting the slums of sea-port towns....

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• land-slip

  The fall of a quantity of land from a cliff or declivity; the land sliding away so as often to carry...

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• land-turn

  A wind that blows in the night, at certain times, in most hot countries. ...

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• land-waiters

  See landing-waiters. ...

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• sunk land

  Shallows and swamps. ...

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• table-land

  Land which is flat-topped, however it may be raised more or less above the ordinary level of the vic...

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• totty-land

  Certain heights on the side of a hill [probably derived from the Anglo-Saxon totian, to elevate]. ...

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• No-man's land

  ·- Fig.: An unclaimed space or time. II. No-man's land ·- A space amidships used to keep blocks, ro...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Shalim, Land of

  Land of foxes, a place apparently to the north-west of Jerusalem (1 Sam. 9:4), perhaps in the neighb...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Shalisha, Land of

  Probably the district of Baal-shalisha (2 Kings 4:42), lying about 12 miles north of Lydda (1 Sam. 9...

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• Zuph, Land of

  (1 Sam. 9:5, 6), a district in which lay Samuel's city, Ramah. It was probably so named after Elkana...

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• Van Diemen's Land

  the name given to the colony nowcalled Tasmania, by Abel Jansz Tasman, the Dutch navigator,in 1642, ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to break up land

  To plough up land that has lain long as a meadow, is the sense as understood in the United States. I...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• half-drowned land

  Shores which are rather more elevated and bear more verdure than drowned land (which see). ...

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• neck of land

  Dividing two portions of water, or it may be the neck of a peninsula. ...

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• no-man's land

  A space in midships between the after-part of the belfry and the fore-part of a boat when it is stow...

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• sighting the land

  Running in to catch a view. ...

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• Land of Steady Habits

  ·add. ·- Connecticut; — a nickname alluding to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by t...

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• Shinar, The Land of

  LXX. and Vulgate "Senaar;" in the inscriptions, "Shumir;" probably identical with Babylonia or South...

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• Shual, The land of

  Land of the fox, a district in the tribe of Benjamin (1 Sam. 13:17); possibly the same as Shalim (9:...

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• Sinim, The land of

  (Isa. 49:12), supposed by some to mean China, but more probably Phoenicia (Gen. 10:17) is intended. ...

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• Tob, The land of

  A district on the east of Jodan, about 13 miles south-east of the Sea of Galilee, to which Jephthah ...

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• Uz, The land of

  Where Job lived (1:1; Jer. 25:20; Lam. 4:21), probably somewhere to the east or south-east of Palest...

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• keep the land aboard

  Is to sail along it, or within sight, as much as possible, or as close as danger will permit. ...

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• lay the land, to

  Barely to lose sight of it. ...

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• make the land, to

  To see it from a distance after a voyage. ...

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• Benjamin, The Land Of

  The proximity of Benjamin to Ephraim during the march to the promised land was maintained in the ter...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Canaan, The Land Of

  (lit. lowland), a name denoting the country west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and between those w...

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• Shalim, The Land Of

  (the land of foxes), a district through which Saul passed on his journey in quest of his father's as...

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• Shalisha, The Land Of

  one of the districts traversed by Saul when in search of the asses of Kish. (1 Samuel 9:4) only. It ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Shual, The Land Of

  a district named in (1 Samuel 13:17) only. It is pretty certain from the passage that it lay north o...

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• close with the land, to

  To approach near to it. ...

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• heading up the land water

  When the flood-tide is backed by a wind, so that the ebb is retarded, causing an overflow. ...

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• make free with the land, to

  To approach the shore closely. ...

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• keep a good hold of the land

  Is to hug it as near as it can safely be done. ...

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