jacktar

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of jacktar.
   British, alt-of
2. A sailor; especially, one in the Royal Navy.
   British

Examples

“O! the next that steps up is a jolly Jack tar, / He sailed with Lord [Nelson]^([sic]), during last⟳ war: / He’s right on the sea, Old England to view⟳: / He’s come⟳ a pace-egging with so jolly a crew.”

“Wreaths of blue smoke⟳ curled gracefully from above the pipes of our loungers, who, gradually growing tired of chaffing each other, or of vainly wooing the drowsy god, fell into the ever-pleasant frontier habit of spinning yarns, an art in which the borderer rivals any gallant Jack Tar who ever trod a forecastle.”

“I am a jolly Jack Tar, / My star, / And you are the fairest, / The richest and rarest / Of innocent lasses you are, / By far”

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