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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