noun. A clumsy person.

noun. An inexperienced sailor; a landlubber.

noun. A heavy, clumsy fellow; a sturdy, awkward dolt: applied especially by sailors to any one of the crew who is deficient in seamanship.

To sail in a lubberly or clumsy manner.

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

noun. a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land.

noun. a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romalea microptera, which is injurious to orange trees in Florida.

noun. a hole in the floor of the “top,” next the mast, through which sailors may go aloft without going over the rim by the futtock shrouds. It is considered by seamen as only fit to be used by lubbers.

noun. a line or point in the compass case indicating the head of the ship, and consequently the course which the ship is steering.

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noun. a clumsy or lazy person

noun. an inexperienced or novice sailor; a landlubber

noun. an awkward stupid person

noun. an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage

"There is a good deal of what I call a lubber's fuss, parson, kept up on board a ship that shall be nameless, but which bears, about three leagues distant, broad off in the ocean, and which is lying to under a close-reefed maintopsail, a foretopmast-staysail, and foresail -- I call my hand a true one in mixing a can -- take another pull at the halyards!"

lubber's hole  lubber's point  

lubber's hole  

beginner  clumsy person  initiate  novice  tiro  

blubber  rubber  scrubber  

boor  bumpkin  churl  cloven-footed  flet  

blockhead  blunderer  blunderhead  boor  botcher