A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.
Only a few weeks before, Billie had read an account in a newspaper of how a pretty young school teacher had been tarred and feathered by a mob of people who were jealous of her beauty and refinement.
But board covered with patent felt, and tarred once a year, is the best.
They haul the rope backwards and forwards so as to make the tarred stick revolve rapidly till the rope first smokes and then emits sparks.
The sun stood high in heaven and blazed in the winding side-streets so that the tarred timberwork sweated and the gutters stank; from the harbor came the sound of the crier, with his drum, crying herrings, and announcing an auction.
But sometimes a desperate mood came over him, and at times he would make himself conspicuous by behavior that would have made old Lasse weep; as, for example, when he defiantly sat upon a freshly-tarred bollard.
First of all tack tarred building paper to the studding, running the strips up and down and having them catch on every third studding.
Charles Allen was next stripped and tarred and feathered, because he would not agree to leave the county, or deny the Book of Mormon.
They succeeded in taking Charles Allen, whom they tarred and feathered upon the public square, surrounded by hundreds of the mob.
When he came to the street that was strewed with money he sat down, took off his boots, and put on the newly-tarred boots.
When he had got to the end of the street, he too off the money that had stuck to his tarred boots, made a hole in the earth and poured it in.
A good solid floor was also put in, and this was tarred and sanded.
It is then divided into small bundles; the lower ends being placed evenly together, and the bundles tied closely together on the lath with tarred rope.
The floors were of earth, pounded hard and well tarred to keep out the ants.
Poor Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead!
Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead!
Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead!
And that old perfume of tarred hemp and roses," I asked, "does that suggest one of them?
Yes, tarred hemp and red roses; funny combination, isn't it?
No, nothing to do with my memory of tarred hemp and red roses; only to make my point clear to you," and Mac's head sank the lower in his chair.
A few weeks before, he had made a seizure at Kennebeck river, 150 miles from Boston, and by some imprudence had excited the wrath of the people there, in such a degree, that they tarred and feathered him over his clothes.
Spun-yarn is made by twisting together very loosely two or more well-tarred yarns.
Marlin is also made of tarred yarns, but is tightly twisted and is much harder and smoother than spun-yarn.
About three o'clock of the afternoon of the following day Vandover was sitting on the deck near the stern, fastening on his shoes with a length of tarred rope, the laces which he had left trailing having long before broken and pulled out.
He was dressed like a mechanic or a stoker in an old pea-jacket with baggy pockets, with an oil-skin cap on his head, a woollen scarf round his neck, and tarred boots on his feet.
He could already smell the delicious odour oftarred ropes.
At that moment he did not think of his father or mother; he thought of nothing but the smell of brackish water and tarred ropes, and the deck of a ship on the open sea under a cloud of canvas, and the far-away Spanish Main.
The only sound was the dull thud of horses' hoofs, or the squeak of some wheel which had not got into working order, or had not been properly tarred amid the darkness.
It was heavily laden, covered with horsecloths and strong wolf-skins, and firmly bound with tightly drawn tarred ropes.
I well remember, in my young days, the clanking gibbet on the sands near Preston and the three tarred and iron-riveted carcases hanging, each in its chains, with the perpetual guard of carrion crows.
Her strakes were a patchwork of various kinds of wood, though when she was tarred their diversity would be hidden from all but the searching of the elements.
A deck hand; one who tarred iron, and could take a trick at the wheel when some one was watching him.
These men, disguised as Indians, tarred and feathered those who paid rent, and killed the collectors who were sent to them.
The roofs have been waterproofed with tarred paper, and the walls stained to resist the rain.
He finds difficulty in getting material, such as tarred paper or felt, etc.
These are generally made of leather, riveted tightly over a spiral worm of hoop-iron, about three-quarters of an inch broad, a piece of tarred canvas being placed between the worm and the leather.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
