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  jack-tar

  noun

  a sailor.
• Jack Tar
  Jack Tar

  noun

  a sailor

jack-tar

American  

[jak-tahr] / ˈdʒækˈtɑr /

Or Jack Tar

noun

1. a sailor.

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Jack Tar British  

noun

1. literary a sailor

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Etymology

Origin of jack-tar

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

Then I helped pick up Jack tar, and he was taken 45 to the hospital, where his wounds were found to be of a dangerous nature.

From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

“No, you blessed donkey, I didn’t say that,” replied the worthy Jack tar.

From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

Their arms and breast were plentifully tattooed, so that but for the great exception of their evil dispositions, they might well have passed for good specimens of the proverbial Jack tar.

From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

"If all were like she"—was the comment of one Jack tar; and the rest were precisely of his opinion.

From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Warner, Susan

And now, when he stirred and opened his eyes, it was to see a burly sailor, a British Jack tar, staring at him with a huge smile on his good-humoured face.

From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)