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jack-tar

[jak-tahr] / ˈdʒækˈtɑr /
NOUN
jack
Synonyms
STRONG
bluejacket boater cadet diver lascar marine mariner mate middy navigator pilot pirate salt seafarer seaman shipmate swab tar tarpaulin windjammer
WEAK
able-bodied sailor circumnavigator deck hand hearty midshipman/woman old salt sea dog sea person shellback swabber swabbie water dog yachter

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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

Harry bowed like a gentleman, Mr. Stanley like a jack-tar.

From Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 by Cooper, Susan Fenimore

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

"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.