Meaning of Bluejacket | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A seaman of a British warship
2. An enlisted man in the US Navy.
3. A uniformed policeman.
4. An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).

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Examples

“It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.”

“‘[…] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […]’”

“The Navy and the Indian tribes up and down the Coast took part in the races, the Navy rowing their heavy ship's boats round from Esquimalt Harbour, manned by blue-jackets, while smart little pinnaces “pip-pipped” along commanded by young midshipmen.”

“[…] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.”

“He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.”

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