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.

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 Meade, L. T.

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)

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)