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Definition of Tarred
1. tarre [v] - See also: tarre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarred
Literary usage of Tarred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"iron wire, each strand made of T wires, twisted 6 around 1, laid equally around
the core, which had previously been padded with a serving of tarred hemp. ..."
2. A Pocket-book of Marine Engineering Rules and Tables: For the Use of Marine by Albert Edward Seaton, Henry Morrison Rounthwaite (1922)
"Admiralty tarred Hemp Cordage. All sizes are specified to be formed at an angle
of 27°, ... '21 x (girth in inches)2 for wet or tarred ropes. ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... tarred.. 860 thread Ratline of Wild ... tarred 1900 i-half-inch Rope of Wild
... Fibre tarred 2800 h Cord of ..."
4. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1900)
"In a few minutes they were stripped naked, and tarred and feathered " as completely,"
said a witness, " as if it had been done in one of those seminaries of ..."
5. Fundamental Ideas of Mechanics and Experimental Data by Morin (Arthur Jules), Arthur Jules Morin, Joseph Bennet (1860)
"tarred cords. — In calculating the results of Coulomb's experiments upon tarred
... 0.001371S We see, by this, that the values of B are for tarred as for ..."
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