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Synonyms for jack-tars
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : jak-tahr |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒækˈtɑr |
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Définition of jack-tars
- As in jack : noun sailor
- It was war-time, and the place was literally swarming with jack-tars.
- Extract from : « The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Part 5. » by Robert Seymour
- It is a mimic storm of canvas, with Jack-tars instead of angels playing "in the plighted clouds!"
- Extract from : « The World on Wheels and Other Sketches » by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor
- There has been a general debandade among the Jack-tars—leaving many a merry deck in forlorn and silent solitude.
- Extract from : « The Flag of Distress » by Mayne Reid
- Just fancy one of our Jack-tars diving from the Chesil Bank and finding a mate like that below!
- Extract from : « From John O'Groats to Land's End » by Robert Naylor and John Naylor
- So somehow or other the Jack-tars got the lobster out, and set the mayor free, and put him ashore at the Barbican.
- Extract from : « The Water-Babies » by Charles Kingsley
- Launches shouted, jack-tars prodded with their boathooks, and load of men followed load of men.
- Extract from : « Wounds in the rain » by Stephen Crane
- The two vessels had as crew seventy-three jack-tars, who could be thoroughly depended on.
- Extract from : « Celebrated Travels and Travellers » by Jules Verne
- Such dear, wild-looking fellows as 390 these Jack-tars are, but so respectful and proper in conduct and manner.
- Extract from : « Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India » by W. S. R. Hodson
- His dress, like that of most Jack-tars, was naturally rugged, and he contrived to make it more so than usual.
- Extract from : « The World of Ice » by R.M. Ballantyne
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