lobster

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• 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

  n. The name is often carelessly usedin Australia for the Crayfish (q.v.). ...

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

• 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