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tarring, vbl. n.|ˈtɑːrɪŋ|
[f. tar v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of coating or smearing with tar.
1473–4in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 15 For the tarryng of the hempon cabul. 1542Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. VIII. 132 Mending and tirring of lxx ald somes. 1589Pappe w. Hatchet E j b, I thinke them woorth neither the tarring, nor the telling. 1669J. Owen in State Papers, Dom. 576 We spend 2 [lasts of tar] at a tarring. 1774T. Hutchinson Diary 1 July (1883) I. 164 The committee for tarring and feathering blamed the people for doing it. 1784[see tar v.1 b]. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxiii. 390 He..invariably recommended..the ‘tarring and feathering’ of any unpopular person who differed from himself. 1861Illustr. Lond. News 17 Aug. 152/1 The tarring and feathering of defenceless individual Northerners.
attrib.1851–4Tomlinson Cycl. Arts (1867) VI. 468/1 The tarring-house is separated from the other buildings by a second partition. |