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land-lubber
land-lubber (ˈlændˌlʌbə(r)) [lubber occurs in the 16th c. in this sense.] A sailor's term of contempt for a landsman.a 1700 [see land-loper 2]. 1752 Johnson Rambler No. 198 ¶ 11 My Uncle..bid me prepare myself against next year for no land lubber should touch his money. 1824 W. Irving T. Trav. (1849...
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land-lubbing
land-lubbing, a. [Irreg. f. land-lubber.] Land-lubberly.1885 Punch 29 Aug. 100/2 The Judge, a land-lubbing chap in a wig. 1927 Daily Express 4 Oct. 3/3 We land⁓lubbing civilians know less about the Navy than our maiden aunts might be expected to know about alimony. 1960 House & Garden Aug. 31/2 Judg...
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Harold Edward Bindloss
The Buffalo Courier notes that "His descriptions are not those of the land-lubber who writes from a safe-point of vantage...
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land-louper
land-loper, land-louper Now chiefly Sc. (ˈlændˌləʊpə(r), -ˌlaʊpə(r)) Also 7 -lowper, 8 -looper. [ad. Du. landlooper (= MHG. lantloufære, G. landläufer), f. land land n.1 + loopen to run: see leap v. Cf. landleaper.] 1. One who runs up and down the land; a vagabond; fig. † a renegade; an adventurer.1...
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Bradbury Fill
1908–11 by Waltz & Reece Construction Company and sits between mileposts 49.1 and 49.8 in Byram Township, just west of Waltz & Reece Cut and east of Lubber Bradbury, who had owned most of the land used for the fill.
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William Bevil Thomas
William Bevil Thomas (1757–1825) was a prominent merchant, land developer and sea captain notable in the history of St. was beating in the Narrows, say his fine brig the Cynthia, Captain Goldsworth, he could be heard muttering, "Luff, confound you, Goldsworth, luff, you lubber
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lubber
▪ I. lubber, n. (ˈlʌbə(r)) Forms: 4 lobre, lobur, 6 lober, loubber, lubbo(u)r, lub(b)ur, luber, lubbarre, 6–7 lubbar, 6– lubber. [The form may possibly belong to an adoption of OF. lobeor swindler, parasite, agent-n. f. lober to deceive, sponge upon, mock; but if so the sense has been altered by ass...
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Aubrey–Maturin series
But while frequently "brilliant" and much respected at sea, he is less competent on land, as indiscreet liaisons, impertinent remarks, and poor financial At a dinner, replying to a lubber's question on the term 'dog-watch' (Post Captain, Chapter 12), Stephen suggests it is "because they are curtailed, of
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Frank Lyon
Personal life
In 1889, Lyon and Georgie Hays Wright moved to Alexandria County and built a small house on Lubber Run near Ballston, Virginia. In 1923, Lyon moved to Langley, Virginia and bought 169 acres of land and built a stone house called Ballantrae on the land.
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Grasshopper
The two main families in this are the Acrididae (grasshoppers and locusts) with a worldwide distribution, and the Romaleidae (lubber grasshoppers), found As pests
Grasshoppers eat large quantities of foliage both as adults and during their development, and can be serious pests of arid land and prairies.
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鲸鱼爆炸
他也自我揶揄说:“菜鸟记者(land-lubber newsman)如今变成脂肪记者(land-blubber newsman)了。”
纵然壮观,但这次爆破显然不成功。许多脂块被炸离岸边,还击中了来往的车辆。但鲸鱼大部分身躯依然完好,使得俄勒冈高速公路局仍旧无法撤去。
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Hope Town District Council
Foot's Cay, Fowl Cay, Man-O-War Cay, Sandy Cay, Dickie's Cay, Garden Cay, Johnny's Cay, Elbow Cay (where the capital settlement Hope Town is located), Lubber's Under this term, Chief Councillor Bethel also undertook the establishment of the Pelican Cays' Land and Sea Park.
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Kate Rickards
the company included Georgina Heatherington in Walch's Spoons, Lillian Neville in Charles Godfrey's musical sketch On Guard, and Tootsie Sloper in The Land Lubber: A Nautical Nightmare, written especially for her by Walch.
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HMS Ganges mast
These doors (sometimes known as "[land] lubber's holes") were locked shut on the side that boys ascended the mast but open on the opposite side to allow
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The Unknown Ajax
Richmond's activities eventually bring him to the suspicious notice of Lieutenant Ottershaw, the self-righteous head of the local Land-Guard Preventive Vincent also applies other disparaging terms from the play to Hugo, such as "the lubber Ajax" and "the elephant Ajax" in reference to his clumsy size.
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