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

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

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.

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

Somehow it has come to be supposed or assumed that a jack-tar cannot ride.

From Charlie to the Rescue by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)