jack-tar
noun
a sailor.
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jack-tar
American
[jak-tahr]
/ ˈdʒækˈtɑr /
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Jack Tar
noun
Jack Tar
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of jack-tar
First recorded in 1775–85
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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
Whatever became of the men from the British trawler he never knew, but his jack-tar companions were with him still and helped to keep up his spirits.
From Tom Slade on a Transport by Clarity, Thomas
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 ought not to have been loose, and there is a bit of discipline for some jack-tar."
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.
The Navy was at the centre of national life - politically powerful and a major cultural force as well, with images of the jolly sailor Jack Tar used to sell everything from cigarettes to postcards.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2014
The mysterious figure of Old Jack Tar, who acts as sage and mentor to Harry, is also based on a real person, this time the much-decorated British army officer Tommy Macpherson.
From Reuters ● May 12, 2011
They announced that Jack Tar will not have to take the 25% wage cut he mutinously refused; but he must take, added the Lords of Admiralty, a 10% cut.
From Time Magazine Archive
Notable this week was his full-page panegyric of " Jack Tar Togs " in the Saturday Evening Post.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tommy Atkins, the British soldier, as Jack Tar is the British sailor, from a hypothetical name inserted in a War Office schedule at one time issued to each soldier.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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