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# lubber

«lubber» in Mova's school dictionary: **a clumsy, slow, awkward person** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (lubbers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lubber is a clumsy, slow, awkward person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lubber/#m1)

2) (old use, at sea) A landlubber is a person who is not used to the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lubber/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in sea tales, sailors call a clumsy man a lubber

### examples

- Ahoy, you lubbers! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lubber/#x1)
- Don't be such a lubber on the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lubber/#x2)
- The landlubber felt sick on the ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lubber/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lubber» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lubber/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.