jack-tar
noun
a sailor.
jack-tar
American
[jak-tahr]
/ ˈdʒækˈtɑr /
Or
Jack Tar
noun
Jack Tar
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of jack-tar
First recorded in 1775–85
Example Sentences
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Not many days are required to restore Shiloh to his best blithe spirits and make of him an astonishingly tough and adept jack-tar.
From Time Magazine Archive
So he got himself transferred to another boat that was about to sail for the West Indies, and took the rough service that falls to the lot of a jack-tar.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Hubbard, Elbert
I don’t say they don’t fight well, for I own they do their duty like men in that line; but when it comes to work, why, they ain’t in it with a jack-tar.
From By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson by Rainey, W. (William)
Splendid jack-tar as he was, no one could be more thoroughly disagreeable than Isaac Dent when things, as he expressed it, "went agin' him."
From A Girl of the People by Meade, L. T.
It takes the British jack-tar to put the kibosh on this pirate game.
From Great Pirate Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
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