tar : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal; coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds
  

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• . See in the Vocabulary.

Webster 1913

• noun a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood
  creosote.
  

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• (Chem.), a colorless or yellow, oily liquid, obtained in the distillation of coal tar, and resembling wood-tar oil, or creosote proper, in composition and properties.

Webster 1913

• coal tar.

Webster 1913

• noun a man who serves as a sailor
  tar; old salt; sea dog; seaman; gob; Jack; seafarer; mariner.
  

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• noun a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt
  maltha.
  

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• (Min.), a kind of soft native bitumen.

Webster 1913

• noun a dark viscous substance obtained from the destructive distillation of pine wood
  

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• noun baseball equipment consisting of a rag soaked with pine tar; used on the handle of a baseball bat to give a batter a firm grip
  

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• petroleum.

Webster 1913

• a strong quality of millboard made from junk and old tarred rope. Knight.

Webster 1913

• noun a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies
  Old North State; NC; North Carolina.
  

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• noun a heavy paper impregnated with tar and used as part of a roof for waterproofing
  roofing paper.
  

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• noun a natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth; often acts as a trap for animals whose bones are thus preserved
  

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• . (a) A cold infusion of tar in water, used as a medicine. (b) The ammoniacal water of gas works.

Webster 1913

• verb smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers; done in some societies as punishment
  
  • The thief was tarred and feathered

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• noun New Zealand shrub
  New Zealand mountain pine; Halocarpus bidwilli; tarwood; Dacrydium bidwilli.
  
• noun New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes
  Dacrydium colensoi; tarwood.
  

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• adjective satellite smeared with tar and covered with feathers as a punishment
  
  • the poor tarred-and-feathered wretch

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• to smear him with tar and cover him with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity.

Webster 1913

• noun any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood
  

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• tar obtained from wood. It is usually obtained by the distillation of the wood of the pine, spruce, or fir, and is used in varnishes, cements, and to render ropes, oakum, etc., impervious to water.

Webster 1913