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(LAND-lub-uhr)

noun: A person unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship.

"In February 1946, when Bombay, that super-epic motion picture of a city, was transformed overnight into a motionless tableau by the great naval and landlubber strikes."
Salman Rushdie; The Moor's Last Sigh; The World & I; May 1996.

This week's theme: Nautical words

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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