0 a person who has little knowledge or experience of ships and travelling by sea
Yes, the doctor here is the stolid skipper while the layman is the hapless landlubber.
To sail on an occasion like that was, for a landlubber like myself, an unbelievable experience.
Perhaps, in those circumstances, a landlubber may ask: is it fair to make that task harder and even, perhaps, impossible?
They are having enough difficulty as it is, considering some of the "landlubbers" problems in markets.
So am but it does not stop one commenting on the analogy of landlubbers and fishwives.
I do not think it was as faulty as his analogy between landlubbers and fishwives in his parish council.
That observation applies to all landlubbers— politicians, bishops, trade union leaders, civil servants, and in particular, university professors.
From any point of view this is an entirely proper condition, because it would be wrong if grants were made to incompetents or landlubbers.
