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JACK-TAR

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Overview

JACK-TAR (noun)
  The noun JACK-TAR has 1 sense:

1. a man who serves as a sailorplay

  Familiarity information: JACK-TAR used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


JACK-TAR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who serves as a sailor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar

Hypernyms ("Jack-tar" is a kind of...):

crewman; sailor (any member of a ship's crew)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Jack-tar"):

able-bodied seaman; able seaman (a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills)

bo's'n; bo'sun; boatswain; bos'n; bosun (a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen)

deckhand; roustabout (a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor)

helmsman; steerer; steersman (the person who steers a ship)

bargee; bargeman; lighterman (someone who operates a barge)

officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)

pilot (a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor)

sea lawyer (an argumentative and contentious seaman)

whaler (a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales)


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