An inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage.
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Examples for "lubber "
Examples for "lubber "
1 Every lubber knows that a ship is launched before she is rigged.
2 Fell sick in the Bay o' Biscay, like any land - lubber , didn't he?
3 The mate now complimented me by exclaiming, 'Why, look at the lubber ! '
4 Exasperated at this sarcasm, he replied, with great vehemence, You lie, lubber !
5 You are no land - lubber , and you will run me over in the morning.
1 I suppose it's because he's an old sea-dog and not a landlubber .
2 Well, a good job too, says I; a useless old landlubber he was.
3 The other fellow was a landlubber friend of his from Andros.
4 This ancient landlubber was becoming as great an affliction as any cross-bowed mariner.
5 How do you know that, you little landlubber ? he laughingly responded.
1 A landfall was always exciting, to landman and old Jack alike.
2 As the landman gets to know the townspeople, he suffers a crisis of conscience.
3 Would he have cared so much for procedure if a lowly landman had been missing overboard?
4 He had slithered down a backstay, something which would have torn any landman 's palms like a knife-blade.
1 This was a civilian, a landsman , who needed the information, and urgently.
2 He was a nondescript who had joined the ship as a landsman .
3 The man had sharp eyes, for a landsman could have seen nothing.
4 Not even I, landsman as I was, could mistake what I saw.
5 Luckily for England, Philip was a landsman , no soldier, and very slow.
6 Very tall and broad-shouldered, self-confident: probably the landsman 's idea of a frigate captain.
7 The Jasper B. had seen better days; even a landsman could tell that.
8 A landsman might think that medley reigned supreme; but it was not so.
9 The Captain knew it also, and no landsman would have possessed the knowledge.
10 The landsman 's ideal of the English sailor, the Heart of Oak.
11 The technique of submarine-chasing and dodging would be dry reading to a landsman .
12 And his thought came back to reassure the more clumsy landsman .
13 A seaman does a thing before a landsman thinks about it.
14 Neither would a landsman take command of a ship without misgivings.
15 He had one great advantage over a landsman who has committed a crime.
16 This fish story has several rather astonishing features-atleast to an inexperienced landsman .
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