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A.Word.A.Day--landlubber Do you wish to receive A.Word.A.Day in your mailbox every day? Subscribe here. Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio landlubber (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, when ships did not sail, steel was not milled, textile looms neither warped nor woofed, and in the movie studios there was neither turnover nor cut ... " Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh, The World & I, 1 May 1996. This week's theme: nautical words. X-Bonus 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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