A person engaged in sailing or working on a ship.

• gob

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• tar

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• salt

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• seaman

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• seafarer

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• sea dog

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• sailor

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• navigator

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• mariner

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• Also used with uppercase: jack-tar

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Fabric used especially as a symbol

• streamer

  1. A long narrow flag, banner, or pennant.
  2. A long narrow strip of material used for ornament or decoration.
  3. A fishing fly that imitates a baitfish.

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• standard

  1. Serving as or conforming to an established or accepted measurement or value:
  2. Widely recognized or employed as a model of authority or excellence:
  3. Acceptable but of less than top quality:

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• pennon

  1. A long narrow banner or streamer borne upon a lance.
  2. A pennant, banner, or flag.
  3. A pinion; a wing.

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• pennant

  1. A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.
  2. A flag or an emblem similar in shape to a ship's pennant.
  3. A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.

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• oriflamme

  1. An inspiring standard or symbol.
  2. The red or orange-red flag of the Abbey of Saint Denis in France, used as a standard by the early kings of France.

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• flag

  1. A piece of cloth, usually rectangular, of distinctive color and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, or emblem.
  2. National or other allegiance, as symbolized by a flag:
  3. A ship carrying the flag of an admiral; a flagship.

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• ensign

  1. A national flag displayed on ships and aircraft, often with the special insignia of a branch or unit of the armed forces.
  2. A standard or banner, as of a military unit.
  3. A commissioned rank in the US Navy or Coast Guard that is below lieutenant junior grade.

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• color

  1. The appearance of objects or light sources described in terms of the individual's perception of them, involving hue, lightness, and saturation for objects, and hue, brightness, and saturation for light sources.
  2. The characteristics of light by which the individual is made aware of objects or light sources through the receptors of the eye, described in terms of dominant wavelength, luminance, and purity.
  3. A gradation or variation of this aspect, especially when other than black, white, or gray; a hue:

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• banneret

  1. A small banner.

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• banner

  1. A piece of cloth attached to a staff and used as a standard by a monarch, military commander, or knight.
  2. The flag of a nation, state, or army.
  3. A piece of cloth bearing a motto or legend, as of a club.

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• banderole

  1. A narrow forked flag or streamer attached to a staff or lance or flown from a ship's masthead.
  2. A representation of a ribbon or scroll bearing an inscription.

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Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange

• brass

  1. A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc, sometimes including small amounts of other metals, but usually 67 percent copper and 33 percent zinc.
  2. Ornaments, objects, or utensils made of this alloy.
  3. The section of a band or an orchestra composed of brass instruments.

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• scratch

  1. To make a thin shallow cut or mark on (a surface) with a sharp instrument.
  2. To use the nails or claws to dig or scrape at.
  3. To rub or scrape (the skin) to relieve itching.

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• moola

  1. Money.

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• mazuma

  1. Money; cash.

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• long green

  1. Paper money.

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• lettuce

  1. Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca of the composite family, especially L. sativa, cultivated for its edible leaves.
  2. The leaves of L. sativa, used especially in salads.
  3. Paper money.

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• green

  1. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
  2. Something green in color.
  3. The branches and leaves of plants used for decoration.

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• gelt

  1. Money.

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• dough

  1. A soft, thick mixture of dry ingredients, such as flour or meal, and liquid, such as water, that is kneaded, shaped, and baked, especially as bread or pastry.
  2. A pasty mass similar to this mixture.
  3. Money.

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• cabbage

  1. Any of several forms of a vegetable (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) of the mustard family, having a globose head consisting of a short stem and tightly overlapping green to purplish leaves.
  2. Any of several similar or related plants, such as Chinese cabbage.
  3. The terminal bud of several species of palm, eaten as a vegetable.

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• bread

  1. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
  2. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
  3. Something that nourishes; sustenance:

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• wampum

  1. Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts, formerly used by certain Native American peoples as currency and jewelry or for ceremonial exchanges between groups.
  2. Money.

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• money

  1. A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market, including among its forms a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note, or a deposit in a checking account or other readily liquefiable account.
  2. The official currency, coins, and negotiable paper notes issued by a government.
  3. Assets and property considered in terms of monetary value; wealth.

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• lucre

  1. Money or profits.

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• currency

  1. Money in any form when in actual use as a medium of exchange, especially circulating paper money.
  2. Transmission from person to person as a medium of exchange; circulation:
  3. General acceptance or use; prevalence:

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• cash

  1. Money in the form of bills or coins; currency.
  2. Liquid assets including bank deposits and marketable securities.
  3. Money paid in currency or by check:

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To increase in amount.

• up

  1. In or to a higher position:
  2. In a direction opposite to the center of the earth or a comparable gravitational center:
  3. In or to an upright position:

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• raise

  1. To move to a higher position; elevate:
  2. To set in an upright or erect position:
  3. To erect or build:

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• jump

  1. To propel oneself upward or over a distance in single quick motion or series of such motions.
  2. To move suddenly and in one motion:
  3. To move involuntarily, as in surprise:

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• hike

  1. To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise.
  2. To rise, especially to rise upward out of place:
  3. To increase or raise in amount, especially abruptly:

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• Also used with up: boost

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An instrument for elevating

• hydraulic jack

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• pneumatic jack

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• automobile jack

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• jack

  1. A man; a fellow.
  2. One who does odd or heavy jobs; a laborer.
  3. One who works in a specified manual trade. Often used in combination:

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• ratchet

  1. A mechanism consisting of a pawl that engages the sloping teeth of a wheel or bar, permitting motion in one direction only.
  2. The pawl, wheel, or bar of this mechanism.
  3. To cause to increase or decrease by increments:

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• jackscrew

  1. A jack operated by a screw.

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The male of certain animals

• stag

  1. The adult male of various deer, especially the red deer.
  2. An animal, especially a pig, castrated after reaching sexual maturity.
  3. A person who attends a social gathering unaccompanied by a partner, especially a man who is unaccompanied by a woman.

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• stud

  1. An upright post in the framework of a wall for supporting sheets of lath, drywall, or similar material.
  2. A small knob, nail head, or rivet fixed in and slightly projecting from a surface.
  3. A small ornamental button mounted on a short post for insertion through an eyelet, as on a dress shirt.

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• buck

  1. A male deer.
  2. The male of various other mammals, such as antelopes, kangaroos, mice, or rabbits.
  3. Antelope considered as a group:

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