What is "bluejacket"

Usage examples of "bluejacket".

British sailor remained on the floor striving to staunch the blood that spurted from a bullet wound in his leg, while near at hand lay a French bluejacket, as white and motionless as though dead.

Dardanelles a bluejacket ran along her upper side as she rolled over, then along her keel as she turned bottom upwards.

As the hour for morning colors approached, sailors in white uniforms removed the jack and ensign from their lockers, a bluejacket on the signal bridge hoisted the Blue Peter, and boatswains were set to pipe the preparatory signal at 0755.

Intensivetraining was necessary for a bluejacket to operate sonar, or an officer use it intelligently.

Battle of Vella Lavella, rescued by PT-163, pulling a gun and killing a bluejacket in the act of giving the Japanese sailor a cup of coffee.

But I repeated that my business was with Panama, not Valencia, and that if in this matter of his row I had any weight at Washington, as between preserving the nitrate beds for the trust, and preserving for his country and various sweethearts one brownthroated, clean-limbed bluejacket, I was for the bluejacket.

The counterpart in real life to this unwholesome bluejacket was actually my starting point.

A lieutenant in the bluejacket of a cavalry regiment came into the room.

Since arriving in the Low Countries, he was wearing something that passed as a livery: a shabby bluejacket and breeches, grey wool-len stockings and heavy,-pewter-buckled shoes.

Then, shako-less and still buttoning his bluejacket, the Sergeant turned back towards the approaching Riflemen.

Mackay did not possess a gun, and would not have given the enraged bluejacket one had he owned a dozen.

Billi Saynchez hummed, stripping off his bluejacket and the gray cotton shirt underneath.

A dozen French bluejackets, armed with cutlasses and pistols, had gathered behind their leader, and now these sprang forward with a shout, clearing a way through the collected throng of villagers.

As a result the latter gave an order, and in another minute a file of French bluejackets, each with a case of canned lobster on his shoulder, was marching towards the door.

The French bluejackets attempted to obey, but, with their first forward movement, they were met by an inrush of sturdy British sailors, who sent them and their burdens crashing to the floor in every direction.