jackatar

jackatar
/jak"euh tahr'/, n. Newfoundland.
a Newfoundland native of mixed French and Amerindian descent.
[1855-60; perh. JACK-TAR (with -a- repr. release of the stop) though the change in sense is unaccounted for]

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