| 单词 | tar-pot | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastar-pot   tar-pot  n. 		 (a) a pot containing tar;		 (b) humorously applied to a sailor (cf.  3);		 (c) an opprobrious name for a black person (U.S.) or a Maori (New Zealand) (cf. tar-baby n.   (b) above). ΚΠ 1580    T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie 		(new ed.)	 f. 16v  				With tar in a Tarpot. a1642    H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. 		(1984)	 25  				One of the girles is to keepe fire under the tarr-potte. 1903    F. T. Bullen in  Daily Chron. 8 June 3/3  				Like many other old tar-pots, I have been intensely annoyed and disgusted by the so-called ‘real’ sea-books put forward. 1944    H. L. Mencken in  Amer. Speech 19 174  				Pickaninny was..used..affectionately. So..was tar-pot..signifying a Negro child. 1949    F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream xiii. 120  				He'd never let the tarpots inside the shed with their lousy sheep. < as lemmas | 
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