A lubber is someone who does not go to sea, who stays on the land. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
She’d be swingin’ that lubber from the shaggin’ yardarm!. From Wordnik.com. [Pirate: the definition] Reference
A wind dead aft, blanketing more than half the canvas, is called a lubber's wind. From Wordnik.com. [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference
Then the word lubber becomes one of the more fierce weapons in your arsenal of piratical lingo. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
'Who do you call lubber, Bull-calf?. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
I'm not very much impressed by a 'lubber's' knowledge anyway. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine] Reference
"Turn out, you lazy lubber, turn out," he shouted. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
"'Vast, y' lubber!" he cried, in no manner abashed. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
"Shiver me! you lubber, but you don't pass," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference
"What's the lubber holding over there for!" he demanded. From Wordnik.com. [Bunches of Knuckles] Reference
"Ain't Hite ther lubber wots allers grubbin 'fer money?". From Wordnik.com. [Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys] Reference
I wouldn't have a land-lubber's wheel on any boat I built. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem] Reference
Does anyone believe a pirate actual says “land lubber”?. From Wordnik.com. [“Mad Kestrel” by Misty Massey] Reference
Worse than that, I was a land-lubber making his first voyage. From Wordnik.com. [THAT DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER] Reference
They tooke him for a great man, but sure he was a lasie lubber. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. From Wordnik.com. [Twelfth Night; or, What You Will] Reference
"In there, you land-lubber!" answered Flint, pointing out to sea. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
‘Miss Rachel will find I’m not quite such a lubber as she fancies. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
"Port your helm, you lubber; don't you see where you're standing for?". From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
'Decidedly not; I'm a steady land-lubber for my life: thank you, father. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
"I've never been aloft in my life, and since there is no hole for a lubber.". From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XXXIV] Reference
On TLAP Day – More likely than not, you are a lubber 364 days of the year. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
'Hold on here,' says a big-sided land-lubber, seizing me by the fore-sheets. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
In a room where everyone is talking like pirates, lubber is ALWAYS an insult. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Apparently, the top of ship doors are about four inches lower than land lubber doors. From Wordnik.com. [drbigbeef Diary Entry] Reference
"Bleed me, cap, that's just about what I didn't think you'd do," the lubber responded. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
While this clumsy lubber was striving to free his white-ash, and while, in consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
I was ready to give him my head when he got up, but the big lubber said, "That will do.". From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
However, I ought not to talk on this subject, for I am the merest civilian and land-lubber. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
I can't be a land-lubber any longer, and I won't, so I shall look out for a ship, pretty soon. '. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
The graceful nature of the intended compliment cannot escape the thickest-headed land-lubber. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 22, 1891] Reference
"Don't dodge it, you lubber!" the man roared, in answer to the mountaineer's instinctive movement. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
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