lubber's

The area was stacked from deck to beams with more crates and casks and those crewmen who needed to see the ship's surgeon or assistant surgeon at 7: 30 a.m. lubber's time did so near Mr. Diggle's stove.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

He climbed the rain-soaked ratlines, negotiated the lubber's hole and trained his telescope north, but he could see nothing except a wind-broken sea and a mass of clouds on the horizon.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

Use the lubber's hole, sir, that's what it be for, lubbers.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

There was a "lubber's loop" in the bight of the sheet and as the young man loosed it his arm was caught in this trap.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

Master Mace deigns not to mention keyed instruments, probably regarding keys as old sailors regard the lubber's hole, -- fit only for greenhorns.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

` Ugly 'was the last of the lot; and, as I came down on the weather or starboard side of the ship, the wind then blowing from the nor'ard and eastward, he was just trying to creep through ` the lubber's hole' into the top.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

I went aft and saw the lubber's mark holding on west by south, and after being satisfied that the man steering could tell port from starboard, I climbed the steps to the poop and took a good look around.

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

It was entered by a lubber's hole in the flooring, through which the shrouds passed.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

All being ready, secure the lubber's point of the pelorus at North and clamp the sight vane to the sun's magnetic bearing at the time you have figured to take the first heading.

Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

If the glass dial be revolved until the degree of demarcation, which is coincident with the right ahead marking on the flat ring, is the same as that which points to the lubber's line of the ship's compass, then all directions indicated by the glass dial will be parallel to the corresponding directions of the ship's compass, and all bearings taken will be compass bearings, i.e., as though taken from the compass itself.

Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919