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bluejackets

n. (plural of bluejacket English)

Usage examples of "bluejackets".

Their patched and faded bluejackets were dirty at the collars and frayed at the sleeve hems.

Philadelphia and doing all he can to stir up everybody agin me and to bring the bluejackets down on me.

From the peaceful look of the yacht, the man and the girl in the settees, and the negroes lounging curiously against the rail, they evidently judged that there would be no resistance, for two boats were lowered casually over the side, one containing an officer and six bluejackets, and the other, four rowers and in the stern two gray-haired men in yachting flannels.

The bluejackets, helped by the curve of the hill, got off with a toll of eighteen of their number.