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jack-tar

[jak-tahr] / ˈdʒækˈtɑr /
NOUN
jack
Synonyms
STRONG
bluejacket boater cadet diver lascar marine mariner mate middy navigator pilot pirate salt seafarer seaman shipmate swab tar tarpaulin windjammer
WEAK
able-bodied sailor circumnavigator deck hand hearty midshipman/woman old salt sea dog sea person shellback swabber swabbie water dog yachter

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

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.

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)

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)

Harry bowed like a gentleman, Mr. Stanley like a jack-tar.

From Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 by Cooper, Susan Fenimore