tar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑː/
ipa: /tɑɹ/
ipa: [tʰɑɻ]
ipa: [tʰɑɹ]
ipa: /tæːɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: tars
Etymology: PIE word
 *dóru
From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą, from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-, from *dóru (“tree”).
See also Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer; also Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian де́рево (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian дърво́ (dǎrvó, “tree”). More at tree.
Senses: glosses: A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
Coal tar.
glosses: A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.
A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
examples: text: Shines in all climates like a star; In senates bold, and fierce in war; A land commander, and a tar.
ref: 1723, Jonathan Swift, To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough:
text: a ruminating tar was[…]adorning [the wooden settle] with his jack-knife,[…]trying his hand at a ship under full sail.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
text: If there's one man that I admire, that man's a British tar.
ref: 1915, W. McMann, “Our Picture Show”, in Western Evening Herald:
synonyms: Jack Tar
Jack tar
jacktar
jack
glosses: A sailor, because of the traditional tarpaulin clothes.
glosses: Black tar, a form of heroin.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from tar (noun)
word: Archangel tar
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word: Athabasca tar sands
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word: beat the tar out of
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word: birch tar
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word: black as tar
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word: black tar
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word: coal tar
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word: gas tar
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word: green tar
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word: Jack Tar
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word: jacktar
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word: juniper tar
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word: mineral tar
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word: pine tar
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word: pitch-tar
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word: slow as tar
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word: spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
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word: Stockholm tar
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word: tar baby
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word: tar-black
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word: tar board
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word: tar boil
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word: tarbrush
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word: tar derby
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word: Tar Heel
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word: tarlike
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word: tarmac
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word: tarmacadam
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word: tar paper
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word: tarpaulin
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word: tar pit
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word: tarpot
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word: tar sand
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word: tar spot
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word: tar water
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word: tarweed
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word: the tackies hit the tar
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word: touch of the tar brush
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word: wood tar