jack-tar

Example Sentences

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Next time yer want a sail, don’t forget to give an honest jack tar a turn.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

And hither has he come, as comes a jack tar to West Street after protracted cruise upon the celibate seas, to smell out, as a very devil of a fellow, quotation-marked life and its attributes.

From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.

Whew! that must rile every old jack tar, though.

From The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers by Carter, Herbert

A jack tar is probably the only representative left of the old "free lance," who served under any flag where he was sure of pay and booty.

From The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner by Wilkinson, John