jacky tar

[ jak-ee ]

noun

, Newfoundland.

1. jackatar.

Example Sentences

"They believe in rod, the scourger almighty, creator of hell upon earth and in Jacky Tar," The Citizen says of the hated British, "the son of a gun, who was conceived of unholy boast, born of the fighting navy, suffered under rump and dozen, was sacrificed, flayed and curried, yelled like bloody hell, the third day he arose again from the bed, steered into heaven, sitteth on his beamend till further orders whence he shall come to drudge for a living and be paid."

From Salon

They believe in rod, the scourger almighty, creator of hell upon earth, and in Jacky Tar, the son of a gun, who was conceived of unholy boast, born of the fighting navy, suffered under rump and dozen, was scarified, flayed and curried, yelled like bloody hell, the third day he arose again from the bed, steered into haven, sitteth on his beamend till further orders whence he shall come to drudge for a living and be paid.

From Project Gutenberg

"He walks well for Jacky Tar," said Fullalove.

From Project Gutenberg

He then gauged this Jacky Tar's intellects; asked him inter alia how to send a frigate's foretop gallant yard down upon deck: and to show how seamanship sticks in the brain when once it gets there, David actually told him.

From Project Gutenberg