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Definition of Tarring
1. tarre [v] - See also: tarre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarring
Literary usage of Tarring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1898)
"WEST tarring CHURCH. BY J. LEWIS ANDEE, FSA IN order to distinguish the parish
in which this church is situated from tarring Neville, in the east of ..."
2. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"Whig Mobs before the Appeal to Arms, and tarring and feathering. ... The practice
of " tarring and feathering," however reprehensible, had, perhaps, ..."
3. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"Whig Mobs before the Appeal to Arms, and tarring and feathering. ... The practice
of * tarring and feathering," however reprehensible, had, perhaps, ..."
4. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century by James Anthony Froude (1888)
"The tarring and feathering committee, growing bolder with impunity, ... At the
end of August a conviction was at last obtained for tarring and feathering. ..."
5. The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century by James Anthony Froude (1874)
"The tarring and feathering committee, ^ tt growing bolder with impunity, ...
At the end of August a conviction was at last obtained for tarring and ..."
6. A Compendious History of Sussex: Topographical, Archæological & Anecdotical by Mark Antony Lower (1870)
"On a part of the South Downs, called tarring Lowe, are several fine and apparently
... The number of acres, he tells us, is 2054, of which tarring proper ..."
7. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"tarring AND FEATHERING IN TWELFTH CENTURY. "Richard I. during his stay in ...
The circumstance mentioned in the text respecting tarring and feathering is a ..."
8. History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles by Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope (1853)
"tarring and feathering although the most effectual ... No doubt in a * The tarring
and feathering at Boston is humorously referred to by Foote in his play ..."
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