jack-tar
[ jak-tahr ]
Synonyms for jack-tar
- bluejacket
- boater
- cadet
- diver
- lascar
- marine
- mariner
- mate
- middy
- navigator
- pilot
- pirate
- salt
- seafarer
- seaman
- shipmate
- swab
- tar
- tarpaulin
- windjammer
- able-bodied sailor
- circumnavigator
- deck hand
- hearty
- midshipman/woman
- old salt
- sea dog
- sea person
- shellback
- swabber
- swabbie
- water dog
- yachter
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It ought not to have been loose, and there is a bit of discipline for some jack-tar.
The other, as his dress betokened, was a Jack-tar of the Royal Navy.
Somehow it has come to be supposed or assumed that a jack-tar cannot ride.
Born as he was in the nineteenth century, he was only a Jack-tar and a hero!
None are more ready to pay due deference to rank than Jack-tar, for he is made most to feel its power.
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