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jack tars
n. (Jack Tar English)
Usage examples of "jack tars".
The citizen soldiers manning the battery hadn't needed much encouragement to make a run for their rowboats and bustle to the mainland, and shortly thereafter a landing party of Jack Tars and a few Royal Marines had rowed ashore in a pinnace to drive nails into the touch holes, which was what 'spiking guns' meant.
Adams conjured up for the jury instead a motley rabble of saucy boys, Negroes, and mulattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tars.
The quick-thinking inmates of the Impulsive somehow coalesced in the sudden milling around of jolly jack tars, hoisted Ploy bodily, and rushed with the little fellow toward the nearest nipple, in the van of the attack.