jack-tar
noun
a sailor.
jack-tar
American
[jak-tahr]
/ ˈdʒækˈtɑr /
Or
Jack Tar
noun
Jack Tar
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of jack-tar
First recorded in 1775–85
Example Sentences
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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
He came down in a few minutes, having donned his best jack-tar suit, and holding out a pretty sealskin purse to Bet.
From A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade
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 L. T. Meade
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 Thomas Clarity
It takes the British jack-tar to put the kibosh on this pirate game.
From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French
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
My friend will next oblige—this jolly Jack Tar Will give his song and chorus in charàck-tar!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 by Various
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