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• jack-tar
  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

Well, there was the Commodore on the Don's quarter-deck, Berry beside him, the Spanish Captain afoor him, and behind him a British Jack-Tar tuckin the Spaniards' swords under his arm like so many umberellas.

From The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea by Ollivant, Alfred

They seemed calculated for gamesters; their vivacity, their readiness, and their everlasting professions of friendship, were nicely adapted to inspire confidence in the unsuspecting American Jack-Tar; who has no legerdemain about him.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

Neptune talks nautical lingo like the hero of Black-eyed Susan, and goes nowhere unaccompanied by a French sailor and an English Jack-Tar, who are themselves bosom friends.

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin