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
It takes the British jack-tar to put the kibosh on this pirate game.
From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French
A jolly jack-tar, having strayed into Atkin's show at Bartholomew Fair, to have a look at the wild beasts, was much struck with the sight of a lion and a tiger in the same den.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
Somehow it has come to be supposed or assumed that a jack-tar cannot ride.
From Charlie to the Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
Notable this week was his full-page panegyric of " Jack Tar Togs " in the Saturday Evening Post.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Do these thoughts ever come to a Jack Tar, and how do they affect him?
From With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by William Edward Sellers
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