Read full poem →mooste fynger, and on the Ringman, for the myddle tyngev
whiche is the longest, lyke a lubber starteth backe, and
beareth no weyghte of the strynge in a maner at all, ther-
Dictionary Entry
A clumsy or lazy person.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “lubber”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →103. _His listless length_. Hales compares _King Lear_, i. 4: "If you
will measure your lubber's length again, tarry." Cf. also _Brittain's
Ida_ (formerly ascribed to Spenser, but rejected by the best