bluejacket

noun 4

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noun

1

A seaman of a British warship

It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.

‘[…] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […]’

2

An enlisted man in the US Navy.

[…] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.

3

A uniformed policeman.

He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.

4

An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).

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