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jack-tar
or Jack Tar
[ jak-tahr ]
/ ˈdʒækˈtɑr /
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Origin of jack-tar
First recorded in 1775–85
Words nearby jack-tar
jack staff,
jackstay,
jackstone,
jackstraw,
jackstraws,
jack-tar,
Jack-the-lad,
Jack-the-rags,
Jack the Ripper,
jack towel,
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Words related to jack-tar
bluejacket,
boater,
cadet,
diver,
lascar,
marine,
mariner,
mate,
middy,
navigator,
pilot,
pirate,
salt,
seafarer,
seaman,
shipmate,
swab,
tar,
tarpaulin,
windjammer How to use jack-tar in a sentence
The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no.
Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.
Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.
Therefore, we should—you guessed it—develop the Canadian tar sands and build the Keystone pipeline.
Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (Jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite Jack London book.
Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.
She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.
How on earth can Jack find time to think about women with the immense amount of work he gets through?
No, Jack is not much to look at, except when he wakes up—I have seen him quite transfigured on the platform.
Little Jack Charmington, her husband, had a snug four hundred a year of his own, which quite sufficed for his modest needs.
British Dictionary definitions for jack-tar
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