Definitions for TAR

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TAR tar

Spelling: [tahr]

IPA: /tɑr/

Tar is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in TAR (art).

Definitions for TAR

noun

1. any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
2. coal-tar pitch.
3. smoke solids or components:
4. a sailor.

Idioms

1. beat / knock / whale the tar out of, Informal. to beat mercilessly:
2. tar and feather, to coat (a person) with tar and feathers as a punishment or humiliation. to punish severely:
3. tarred with the same brush, possessing the same shortcomings or guilty of the same misdeeds:

adjective

1. of or characteristic of tar.
2. covered or smeared with tar; tarred.

verb (used with object)

1. to smear or cover with or as if with tar.

Origin of TAR

before 900; (noun) Middle English tarr(e), ter(re), Old English teru; cognate with Dutch, German teer, Old Norse tjara; akin to tree; (v.) Middle English terren, Old

Examples for TAR

Therefore, we should—you guessed it—develop the Canadian tar sands and build the Keystone pipeline.

The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no.

"I wonder when they'll learn wisdom and tar the roads," was his comment.

Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.

tar water is strongly recommended, and also the smoking of the dried leaves of stramonium, commonly called the thorn-apple.

The sun is setting as we pass over the open mines of the tar sands.

The salts and more active spirits of tar are got by infusion in cold water; but the resinous part is not to be dissolved thereby.

The tar and feather proposal seemed to meet with general favor.

Brown paper should never be used with baked dishes; the pitch and tar which it contains will give the meat a smoky bad taste.

It would transport bitumen and liquefied natural gas drawn from the tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast, mainly in Texas.