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Landlubber

noun

A person who lives and works on land. Synonyms: landman, landsman.

An inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage. Synonyms: landsman, lubber.

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"Landlubber" Quotes from Famous Books

... where it would see that Parma's Spanish army had a safe passage from Flanders into England. Philip had lost his best admiral, Santa Cruz, and had put the Armada in charge of Medina Sidonia, a seasick landlubber, whom he ordered not to fight any more than could possibly be helped until Parma had reached England. Parma, who was a good soldier, saw at once what nonsense it was to put the army first and navy second in the fighting, because, even if he could get into ...

— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood

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... her for changing her mind, ye bloody landlubber!" snorted the seaman, smacking his hand ...

— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day

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... roundabout, never flies over a mountain ridge or divide to reach another valley, but simply pursues the winding streams with a fidelity that deserves praise for its very singleness of purpose. No "landlubber" he. It is said by one writer that the dipper has never been known to alight on a tree, preferring a rock or a piece of driftwood beside the babbling stream; yet he has the digits and claws of the passeres, among which he is placed systematically. ...

— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser

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Words linked to "Landlubber" : habitant, novice, tiro, inhabitant, landsman, lubber, initiate, indweller, dweller, tyro, beginner, landlubberly, denizen