Meaning of sealubber | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone familiar with the sea or seamanship; an experienced sailor.

uncommon

Examples

“The punster is a low person, who refers to the awkwardness of the seal’s gait by speaking of his not having his seal-legs, although a mariner—or a sealubber, as he might express⟳ it.”

“I can command a ship. Perhaps I ought to be content with that. But I’d like⟳ to know⟳ a few of the things that Winthrop there knows so well. We make⟳ fun of a landlubber at sea, but he’s nothing to a sealubber ashore.”

“Showing unusual ability for sealubbers when they swept the boards in both hurdle events, thereby reaping a harvest⟳ of 22 points, the Columbia Midshipmen School captured the team honors in the annual Metropolitan A.A.U. senior indoor championships, the season's opening track and field event, at the Twenty-second Regiment Armory last⟳ night.”

“Now and then the old ship rocks a bit in the bow wash⟳ of a steamer outward bound for Finland and farther points; she strains at her moorings, as though eager for one last⟳ voyage. Nostalgic landlubbers, and sealubbers, enamored of the bygone days of sail⟳, find⟳ her quite irresistible.”

“THE WINDS CALL⟳: Cruises Near and Far (Scribner’s, $8.95), and for over twenty years the winds have⟳ been calling Carleton Mitchell, and this is his grateful response—a collection of salty (or at any rate saline) autobiographical essays covering the peripatetic cruises of a man who lives on a boat and is an uncompromising sealubber.”

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