society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with coating or covering materials > work with coating or covering materials [verb (transitive)] > tar (3)
transitive. To cover, coat, seal, or smear with pitch (also with over, up); to mark or brand (a sheep, etc.) with pitch; to soil or stain with pitch.
transitive. To smear or cover with tar. Also absol.
transitive. To smear or cover (a wooden surface or join, esp. the seams of a ship) with pitch, tar, or other substance, so as to make watertight…