abbey-lubber

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This is an old term of reproach for idleness, and is here quoted only as bearing upon the nautical lubber. In the "Burnynge of Paule's Church, 1563," it is thus explained

"An Abbey-lubber, that was idle, well-fed, a long lewd lither loiterer, that might worke, and would not."

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