Definitions for jack-tar

jack-tar jack-tar

Spelling: [jak-tahr]
IPA: /ˈdʒækˈtɑr/

Jack-Tar is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in jack-tar (-aacjkrt).

Definitions for jack-tar

noun

  1. a sailor.

Origin of jack-tar

First recorded in 1775-85

Examples for jack-tar

Born as he was in the nineteenth century, he was only a jack-tar and a hero!

None are more ready to pay due deference to rank than jack-tar, for he is made most to feel its power.

It ought not to have been loose, and there is a bit of discipline for some jack-tar.

The other, as his dress betokened, was a jack-tar of the Royal Navy.

Somehow it has come to be supposed or assumed that a jack-tar cannot ride.

Word Value for jack-tar
Scrable

17

Words with friends

20

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