tarrern.
/ˈtɑːrə/ One who tars. (In quots. in reference to tarring and feathering: see tar v.1 b.)
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tarrer1784
1784 E. Sheridan Let. 16 Aug. in T. Moore Mem. Life R. B. Sheridan (1825) xv. 485 You mistake, if you suppose I am a friend to your tarrers and featherers:—it is such wretches that always ruin a good cause.
1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 8 Aug. The cases of the tarrers have not been passed upon yet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1784- to bring a hooked fish to gaff
- to bring a hornets' nest about one's ears
- to bring a person above the thumb
- to bring a person adawe
- to bring a person in or to his warison
- to bring a person in or to warison
- to bring a person on or to the stage
- to bring a person to a morsel
- to bring a person to earth
- to bring a person to her milk
- to bring a person to his above
- to bring a person to his milk
- to bring a person to his or her senses
- to bring a person to mischance
- to bring a person to one's bow
- to bring a person to reason
- to bring a person to the earth
- to bring a person to the neck-verse
- to bring a person to the neckverse
- to bring a person to trial
- to bring a person up all standing
- to bring a thing in a proof
- to bring a thing in proof
- to bring a thing in the proof
- to bring a thing on a proof