jack-tar

or Jack Tar

[ jak-tahr ]

noun

1. a sailor.

Jack Tar

noun

1. literary.
   a sailor

Word History and Origins

Origin of jack-tar¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

Boats are lowered away, and Jack Tar prepares to go ashore as a seaman-infantryman.

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Consequently the Jack Tar knows more about the pistol and the military revolver than most men give him credit for.

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The unfamiliar uniform of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century "Jack Tar" is a study in costume.

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"Let lodgings—keep a school—make the boy a shoemaker—send that Jack Tar to sea," was the response.

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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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