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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LUB'BER, n.
A heavy, clumsy fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.
And lingering lubbers lose many a penny.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk]
2: an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage [syn: landlubber, lubber, landsman]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English lobre, lobur Date: 14th century 1. a big clumsy fellow 2. a clumsy seaman • lubberliness noun • lubberly adjective or adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a big clumsy fellow; a lout. Phrases and idioms: lubber line Naut. a line marked on a compass, showing the ship's forward direction. Derivatives: lubberlike adj. lubberly adj. & adv. Etymology: ME, perh. f. OF lobeor swindler, parasite f. lober deceive

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lubber Lub"ber, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. lubber. See Looby, Lob.] A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. --Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. Lubber grasshopper (Zo["o]l.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romalea microptera, which is injurious to orange trees in Florida. Lubber's hole (Naut.), 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. --Totten. Lubber's line, point, or mark, a line or point in the compass case indicating the head of the ship, and consequently the course which the ship is steering.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Clown, boor, lout, clumsy fellow, awkward fellow.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

An awkward fellow: a name given by sailors to landsmen.

Moby Thesaurus

blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, botcher, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, clock watcher, clod, clodhopper, clodknocker, clot, clown, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dillydallier, do-nothing, dolittle, dolt, doodler, faineant, fumbler, gawk, gawky, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick, goldbricker, goof-off, gowk, hayseed, hick, idler, klutz, laggard, landlubber, lingerer, loafer, lobster, loiterer, loller, looby, lotus-eater, lounger, lout, lug, lummox, lump, mope, moper, oaf, ox, palooka, polliwog, potterer, putterer, rube, slouch, sloucher, slubberer, slug, sluggard, stick-in-the-mud, time killer, time waster, trifler, waiter on Providence, yokel