lubberly

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This ship slides along like a London coach His line is lubberly, after all, Greenly!

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  1. Like a lubber; clumsy; awkward. By my Soul, the Girl is spoil'd already—d'ye think she'll ever endure a great lubberly Tarpawlin ? Congreve, Love for Love, ii. 10. (Davies.)
  2. Clumsily; awkwardly.

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  • The captain questioned me, and laughed heartily at my land-lubberly air, and rustic ignorance; but finally he agreed to take me at half wages. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • The stepmother exercised a stepmother's rights, and occasionally chastised, for his own good, her overgrown charge, and the big brute would whimper and whine like a lubberly boy. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
  • 'Pah! It makes me sick to think of having to trust to an accident like that, like a lubberly cockney out for a boozy Bank Holiday sail. —  The Riddle of the Sands
  • On their arrival there, the captain took some pains--by sending up larger yards, and by repainting the broad white streaks showing the portholes--to restore the prize to its proper appearance as a ship of war We should not get half so much credit for her capture, if you took her into Portsmouth looking like a lubberly merchantman," the captain said to Mr. Lyons. "I don't care about patching up all those shot holes in the bulwarks. —  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
  • The men imitated admirably the lubberly, sluggish fashion in which some merchant seamen handle their oars. —  Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman
 

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