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

Lobster
·add. ·noun As a term of opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable perso...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
lobster
A nick name for a soldier, from the colour of his clothes. To boil one's lobster, for a churchman to...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
lobster
A well-known marine crustacean, Astacus marinus. Also, red-coats of old; whence lobster-box, a collo...

The Sailor's Word-Book
butterfly-lobster
n. a marine crustacean, socalled from the leaf-like expansion of the antennae. It is «the highly sp...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
cobler's-lobster
a cow s heel. Cambridgesh. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
lobster-boat
A bluff, clincher-built vessel, fitted with a well, to preserve the lobsters alive. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
lobster-toad
See deep-sea crab. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book