lubber

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• Lubber

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• 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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• land-lubber

  (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.

• abbey-lubber

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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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