jack-tar
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
"It ought not to have been loose, and there is a bit of discipline for some jack-tar."
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.
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 Clarity, Thomas
Harry bowed like a gentleman, Mr. Stanley like a jack-tar.
From Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 by Cooper, Susan Fenimore
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)
