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A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romal…

Like a lubber; clumsy. A great lubberly boy. Shak.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

To beslobber.

A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.

Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.

One who clubs.

One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.

A jellyfish.

To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely. Slubber not business for my sake. Shak.

A mean, dirty wretch. [Low]

In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner. [Low] Drayton.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

A bubble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick, protruding lip. His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.

A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.] Jonson.

A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.

t child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.

ig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. Robynson (More's Utopia). To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. -- To dig from, out of, out, or up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or o…