Jack-tar on whose bundle may be read the word "Centurion.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

Bow-legged men ran the gravest of risks in this respect, and the goose of many a tailor was effectually cooked because of the damning fact, which no protestations of innocence of the sea could mitigate, that long confinement to the board had warped his legs into a fatal resemblance to those of a typical Jack-tar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

The other, as his dress betokened, was a Jack-tar of the Royal Navy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thorogood Family] Reference

Born as he was in the nineteenth century, he was only a Jack-tar and a hero!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan] Reference

Jack-tar, who was trying hard to tell an interminable story to a quiet shipmate in spite of the din.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan] Reference

No one appeared to mind him, till a jolly Jack-tar with both arms cut off, but dressed in full sailor's togs, lurched heavily towards him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suburban Sketches] Reference

They were all British seamen, but displayed at that time none of the well-known hearty off-hand rollicking characteristics of the Jack-tar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers] Reference

Then he smeared some of the lime over the leaf, laid the bit of nut on it, rolled the leaf up into a quid, and tucked it in his cheek, just like a Jack-tar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris] Reference

The surgeon, a remarkably cool and self-possessed individual, went to the consul's house, with a Jack-tar -- equally cool and self-possessed -- carrying the basket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirate City An Algerine Tale] Reference

A JOLLY Jack-tar having strayed into Atkins's show at Bartholomew Fair, to have a look at the wild beasts, was much struck with the sight of a lion and a tiger in the same den.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings] Reference

I followed, waiting until we got to a private place before I would speak to him, however, as I knew he would be mortified to be taken for the friend of a Jack-tar, in such a scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale] Reference

Putting on an old coat with a tarred rope tied around his waist, a pair of torn trousers, and a tarpaulin hat, the disguised Jack-tar ran the little vessel down the River Plym, just as day was dawning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure] Reference

"No long-trousered imitation of a sailor-boy, either, please," said he, pointing, disfavour in his eye, at the presentment of a curly-headed infant of five in a Jack-tar outfit of white flannel topped by an expensive straw hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Pepper Burns] Reference

He did not seem to be accustomed to a seafaring life, and looked about him with the air of a man little used to being on board a ship; however, he assumed the manner of a Jack-tar, looking up at the rigging of the Dolphin, and waddling in true sailor fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blockade Runners] Reference

“The Prussians, your majesty,” answered the Jack-tar that was to be, without apparently realizing that he had said anything wrong or impolite, and merely giving a frank utterance to the sentiment in which he, like all his countrymen in Bavaria, had been brought up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe]

A first-rate Jack-tar ... however, necessity made him a blacksmith, and he got along pretty well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call Of The South 1908] Reference

"Wot captin's that?" growled the Jack-tar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan] Reference

In every Jack-tar, Jeff now finds a Tar-tar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Jolly Jack-tar on Lion and Tiger 166.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference