请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 tarpaper
释义

tarpaper

noun [mass noun] North American
Paper impregnated with tar, used as a building material.Damage to the houses was repaired with the least expensive materials: tarpaper covered holes in walls and roofs and water-resistant metallic paint filled in thin roof areas....
  • The runways were lengthened and tarpaper shacks and other buildings were built in a matter of a few months.
  • On the way we pass through Chinle again, past the Navajo single wides, sometimes repaired with bits of plywood, dirt yards, a junker or two out front, quite often a Hogan, made either of logs or plywood and tarpaper out front too.

Derivatives

tarpapered

adjective ...
  • Her house was a small tarpapered structure that had neither electricity nor plumbing.
  • Whoever built this put a lot of care into it - the roof was tarpapered and waterproof, and the remains of a moat surrounded the castle.
  • This one has tarpapered walls and a corrugated asbestos roof added, but you can just make out the joists sitting on the top beam and part of the roof structure.
随便看

 

英语词典包含243303条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/13 14:44:52