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a grasshoper sometimes moves slow and fast.
non-sailor / not a seaman but a land man or land lubber!
The reading is taken from the fixed lubber line on the body of the compass.
The name for the Eastern Lubber Grasshopper is Romalea Microptera
A pirate
Captain William Lubber is one of the greatest pirates of American history. He wrote the book Pirateology
In days of old, when the first compasses were put on sailing ships, there was no lubber line. It seems that most average people were smart enough to determine where they were going by looking at the compass. Unfortunately, there were a number of people not smart enough to handle this simple feat. Back then, these witless people were called lubber, and the lubber line referred to how the sailing world viewed those who needed such a line. Now you know when someone is calling you a land lubber, they are really calling you a land moron.
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cancer
An abbey-lubber is a term of contempt for an able-bodied but lazy person from a religious house who grew fat from his idleness.