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Tar   /tɑr/   Listen
Tar

noun
1.
Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.  Synonym: pitch.
2.
A man who serves as a sailor.  Synonyms: gob, Jack, Jack-tar, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman.
verb
(past & past part. tarred; pres. part. tarring)
1.
Coat with tar.  "Tar the roads"



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"Tar" Quotes from Famous Books



... pupils liked it. At any rate, they never found any fault with it after trying it. When the owners were late coming for their ships, the Admiral always burned them, so that the insurance money should not be lost. At last this fine old tar was cut down in the fullness of his years and honors. And to her dying day, his poor heart-broken widow believed that if he had been cut down fifteen minutes sooner he ...
— The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Mark Twain
... my good mother," returned Marble, endeavouring to console the poor creature, down whose cheeks the tears now fairly began to run; "the evil you have done, my good mother, can be no great matter. If it was a question about a rough tar like myself, or even of Miles there, who's a sort of sea-saint, something might be made of it, I make no doubt; but your account must be pretty much ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper
... know nothing about, my dear. I'm sorry, but there's pitch and tar in politics as well ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... the same manner the palate must be educated for wines or other drinks. I gave an old priest a bottle of Bass's pale India ale; he could not drink half a glassful but rejected it as picro (bitter); the same old man enjoyed his penny-a-bottle black Cyprus wine, reeking of tar and half-rotten goat-skins, in which it had been brought to market—a stuff that I could not have swallowed! It must therefore be borne in mind when judging of Cyprian wines, that "English taste does not govern the world." Although the British market would ...
— Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 • Sir Samuel W. Baker
... of glazed tile where disaster had overtaken orderly stacks of this multi-tinted material. In the open spaces were covered heaps of sand, and tons of lime, in sacks; layers of paint and hogsheads of tar; ingots of copper and pigs of bronze. Roadways, beaten in the dust by a multitude of bare feet, led in a hundred directions, all merging in one great track toward the camp of the ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller


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