Talk:lubber's hole
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Equinox in topic Missing figurative sense?
Missing figurative sense?
[edit]John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) has this: "Lubber's hole, an aperture in the maintop of a ship, by which a timid climber may avoid the difficulties of the “futtock shrouds;” hence as a sea-term the LUBBER'S HOLE represents any cowardly way of evading duty." Equinox ◑ 02:04, 3 October 2020 (UTC)