It was usual to have a boatswain's chair to sit and be lowered down in while tarringthese stays.
Then I saw that instead of painting he was engaged in tarring the roof of the building.
The roof he was tarring was a little above him, with the result that he himself was fairly covered with sprinklings of the tar.
The sailors who were rope-tarring sniggered audibly, and Alister lifted his face with a look of anxiety, that did as much as the sniggering to stimulate me not to disgrace myself.
Mr. Tarring was also a specialist in ideas and from his confidence of bearing one seemed to derive a snap of electric energy.
Within the half-hour Carl Bristoll, Ruferton and Tarring were with their chief and between them lay sheafs of memoranda and financial data, which littered the table.
With the two bankers, whomTarring shortly ushered in, Hamilton came even more promptly to conclusions.
More went throughTarring and Ruferton and Hendricks--who questioned no motives.
But--surely--" Hamilton had already turned to Tarring and he wheeled with a snap in his voice.
Tarring the stays is more difficult, and is done by an operation which the sailors call ``riding down.
The third process in rope-making, is the tarring of the yarn.
In tarring the yarn, it is found favourable to the fairness of the strip, to allow it to pass around or under a reel or roller in the bottom of the kettle while boiling, instead of coiling the yarn in by hand.
The tarring and blacking of rigging; or the operation of blacking the ship's sides with tar or mineral blacking.
They worked at the rope-tarring till suppertime, then rose wearily, stretching, and went for their salt-horse and biscuit.
As Howard says, "Tarring and featherings was becoming the order of the day.
The favorite method of persecution was tarring and feathering, but riding the Tory on the liberty pole or ducking occurred frequently.
Tarring and feathering and other violent acts became common, and the Tories or friends of government in the surrounding country were obliged to seek refuge in Boston.
They are never actuated by decency or reason; they always choose tarring and feathering as an argument," said Mr. Herbert.
We will finish tarring her the first thing in the morning, and there are two or three odd jobs want doing.
The gentle pastime of tarring and feathering unpopular persons and riding them on sharp rails appears to have been quite common in all parts of the country, for a long time before the Revolution.
Though we were sometimes incommoded by the crowd, in the midst of our coaling and provisioning ship, scraping masts and tarring down rigging, we received everybody politely, and answered patiently their curious questions.
The engineers are busy, overhauling and repairing damages to their engine and boilers; the gunner is at work, polishing up his battery and ventilating his magazine, and the sailors are busy renewing ratlines and tarring down their rigging.
On Monday morning, as an offset to our day's sport, we were all set to work "tarring down" the rigging.
Tarring the stays is more difficult, and is done by an operation which the sailors call "riding down.
We put on short duck frocks, and taking a small bucket of tar and a bunch of oakum in our hands we went aloft, one at the main royal-mast-head and the other at the fore, and began tarring down.
West Tarring was once a market town and several good specimens of medieval and Tudor domestic architecture still exist.
As usual, his sprayer had gotten clogged; tarring should have been started earlier, before it got so cold that the stuff clung to the nozzle and hardened before the spray could settle into the dusty soil.
All that remained now was tarring the fields, and then buckling down beneath the wind shields before the first winter storms struck.
When the mob took to sacking private houses, driving clergymen out of their pulpits, and tarring and feathering respectable citizens, there were doubtless many law-abiding people who became Tories in spite of themselves.
A favourite pastime was tarring and feathering 'obnoxious Tories.
Partisan Rocket cheered, and, in the same breath, grieved that neither of the fugitives had been seen and clamoured to know details of the tarring and feathering.
The story of Block's tarring and feathering had lost nothing in transmission.
Bostonians paying the Exciseman or Tarring and Feathering," " 49.
It will be noticed the signers were obliged to recant, so as to save their property from being destroyed by the mob, and from personal injury and insult such as tarring and feathering, etc.
The story of the tarring was told by Smail, who felt aggrieved, at the village inn that night, and Noakes saw next morning that his position in the village was ruined.
There's a barrel in the outhouse; Trenchard uses it, no doubt, for tarring his fences.
One speaker went into a review of Mormon wrongs since the tarring of the prophet in Ohio, holding the federal government responsible, and naming as the crowning outrage the sending of a Missourian to govern them.
Tarring and feathering, it seems, is an European invention.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
