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Meanings of jack-tar in English
Synonyms
Examples for "tar"
Examples for "tar"
1
Read: Incomplete tar road built in rural Eastern Cape cost R117 million
2
Many European oil companies have major interests in the Canadian tar sands.
3
The tar moves slowly but seven thousand years is a long time.'
4
Canadian officials have called development of the tar sands a national priority.
5
In the tar furnace, the tar itself burns, and the tar only.
1
Bokes the seaman and Sopsy the cook were in the same condition.
2
But I'm pretty sure he's a seaman or used to be one.
3
Of our bargaining with a Moorish seaman; and of an English slave.
4
The seaman stationed at the stopper obeyed, and down went the anchor.
5
It was a simple trap, but as Darrin paused, the seaman replied:
1
He laughed gently, and answered in the words of the ancient mariner:-
2
There was then in the settlement a veteran mariner named William Kidd.
3
St. Elmo consoled the mariner for the loss of Castor and Pollux.
4
He was a mariner, and the two namesakes were in partnership together.
5
Start with Jacques Cartier, ancient mariner of Dieppe, in the year 1535.
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As it happens, we're still looking at Jagger's gob 50 years on.
2
You were looking at at a pretty gob stopping endurance event, right?
3
He sprang from concealment, almost embracing the young gob in his delight.
4
It showed the utter unselfishness of the American doughboy, gob, and leatherneck.
5
There it was, simple and painful as a smack in the gob.
1
As I approached the stranger, I saw that he was a seafarer.
2
Frederick arose and let the great, rosy-white seafarer clamber on his hand.
3
Which rakish seafarer was played by Johnny Depp in the Pirates films?
4
Verily, it convulseth and openeth the heart of the lone seafarer.
5
He was not dying like a seafarer who had fairly earned his reputation.
1
He was a burly fellow, with a look of the sea dog about him.
2
And with that the old sea dog set sail back to the distant shore.
3
My God! The old sea dog bounded from his chair.
4
Trust an old sea dog to use his ears and keep himself out of notice.
5
St. Arles lifted his mug to the sea dog.
1
IHS Technology analyst Jack Kent said the flat revenue indicated new challenges.
2
The situation inside the camp was better than Jack had dared hope.
3
We said similar things at Jack's dinner and Jack had no problem.
4
His new book is called Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built.
5
She'd seen one years ago, and Jack had made her stop going.
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He was a dry old salt, and listened more than he talked.
2
And yet she did not look happy after the old salt's observation.
3
Been so since you were a small lad, an early old salt.
4
He rang the bells correctly, and handled the wheel like an old salt.
5
He explained his plan to the old salt, and then asked his opinion.
Usage of jack-tar in English
1
Born as he was in the nineteenth century, he was only a Jack-tar and a hero!
2
Because of the smoke, and the carefully rationed water aboard ship, they looked more like a mob of filthy buccaneers than jack-tars.
3
"The jack-tars would be delighted to go down in ships and do business in such an element."
4
"It ought not to have been loose, and there is a bit of discipline for some jack-tar."
5
No one appeared to mind him, till a jolly Jack-tar with both arms cut off, but dressed in full sailor's togs, lurched heavily towards him.
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"Wot captin's that?" growled the Jack-tar.