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Quotation dates: 1570
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Lub(b)er, n. [e.m.E. lubber, -ar, ME. (Piers Plowm.) lobre, lobur, of uncertain (? MDu.) origin.] An idle, loutish creature, a lout. — 1570 Satirical Poems xiii. 176.
Fall to … with blyith and mirrie cheir … sa sall we se and heir Quhat lurkand lubers will tak thir lymmers parts 1570 Ib. xxii. 13.
Mychtie men lyke wretchit Irus fall And ly alaw lyke loytring lubbers leud, For feir of storme full fane their saillis to schreud
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