lubberly

• 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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