jack-tar
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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)
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.
It takes the British jack-tar to put the kibosh on this pirate game.
From Great Pirate Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
Harry bowed like a gentleman, Mr. Stanley like a jack-tar.
From Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 by Cooper, Susan Fenimore
