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Land-lubber

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An awkward or inexpert sailor on board ship. (Lubber, the Welsh llob, a dunce.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lance-Corporal and Lance-Sergeant
Lance-Knight
Lance of the Ladies
Lancelot (Sir)
Lancelot or Launcelot Gobbo
Lancelot du Lac
Lancers (The)
Land
Land-damn
Land-loupers
Land-lubber
Land of Beulah (Isa. lxii. 4)
Land of Bondage
Land of Cakes
Land of Myrrh
Land of Nod (The)
Land of Promise
Land of Shadows (Gone to the)
Land of Stars and Stripes (The)
Land othe Leal (The)
Landau