1. Jack Tar Sailor Suits
2. Tar Sailor
3. What Is Tar
4. Sailors Tarred Pigtail

Tar, a slang term for a Sailor, has been in use since at least 1676. The term 'Jack tar' was used by the 1780s. Early Sailors wore overalls and broad-brimmed hats made of tar-impregnated fabric.

• The True British Tar, Carrington Bowles, 1785, collection unknown. Notably, Bowles' piece depicts a sailor wearing a wig, and not his own hair. Nonetheless, it is a departure from the usual sailors' short bob wig. Around 1790, just as my study ends, pigtails become more common.
• Tar, a slang term for a Sailor, has been in use since at least 1676. The term 'Jack tar' was used by the 1780s. Early Sailors wore overalls and broad-brimmed hats made of tar-impregnated fabric.
• Jack Tar s Story examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore contested meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic. It is the first study to use various kinds of institutional sources, including crew lists, ships logs, impressment records, to document the stories sailors told.
• Beat, knock, or whale the tar out of, to beat mercilessly. Tar and feather, to coat (a person) with tar and feathers as a punishment or humiliation. Tar with the same brush, to regard as having the same unfavorable qualities as one whose shortcomings are known. before 900; (n.).

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jack-tar

also Jack-tar(jăk′tär′)

jack′-tar′

or Jack′ Tar′,

n.

Noun

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Jack-tar - a man who serves as a sailor mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman, gob, Jack, tar able seaman, able-bodied seaman - a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills boatswain, bo's'n, bos'n, bosun, bo'sun - 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 ship's officer, officer - a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; 'he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines' 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

jack-tar

nounA person engaged in sailing or working on a ship:

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