LOW LATITUDES. Those regions far removed from the poles of the earth towards the equator, 10° south or north of it.
LOW SAILS. The courses and close-reefed top-sails.
LOW WATER. The lowest point to which the tide ebbs. (See [Tide].) Also, used figuratively for being in distress, without money.
LOXODROMIC. The line of a ship's way when sailing oblique to the meridian.
LOXODRONIUS. The traverse table.
LOZENGE. The diamond-cut figure. (See [Rhombus].)
LUBBER, or Lubbart. An awkward unseamanlike fellow; from a northern word implying a clownish dolt. A boatswain defined them as "fellows fitted with teeth longer than their hair," alluding to their appetites.
LUBBER-LAND. A kind of El Dorado in sea-story, or country of pleasure without work, all sharing alike.
LUBBER'S HOLE. The vacant space between the head of a lower-mast and the edge of the top, so termed from timid climbers preferring that as an easier way for getting into the top than trusting themselves to the futtock-shrouds. The term has been used for any cowardly evasion of duty.
LUBBER'S POINT. A black vertical line or mark in the compass-bowl in the direction of the ship's head, by which the angle between the magnetic meridian and the ship's line of course is shown.