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

So he got himself transferred to another boat that was about to sail for the West Indies, and took the rough service that falls to the lot of a jack-tar.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Hubbard, Elbert

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

"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.

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.