sealubber

Noun

sealubber (plural sealubbers)

1. (uncommon) Someone familiar with the sea or seamanship; an experienced sailor.
   • 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.1893 February, Arthur Morrison, “Zig-Zags at the Zoo: VIII. Zig-Zag Phocine”, in George Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume V, number 26, London: George Newnes, Ltd....
   • 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.1904, Henry Kitchell Webster, chapter VII, in Traitor and Loyalist; or, The Man Who Found His Country, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 111