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jack-tar

 
also Jack-tar (jăk'tär')
n.
A sailor.


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noun

    A person engaged in sailing or working on a ship: jack (uppercase), mariner, navigator, sailor, sea dog, seafarer, seaman. Informal salt, tar. Slang gob3. See sea.

Brit.informal, dated a sailor.

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