Noun: tar
Sample Sentences
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Shines in all climates like a star; In senates bold, and fierce in war; A land commander, and a tar. [1723, Jonathan Swift, To Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough:]
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a ruminating tar was[…]adorning [the wooden settle] with his jack-knife,[…]trying his hand at a ship under full sail. [1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:]
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If there's one man that I admire, that man's a British tar. [1915, W. McMann, “Our Picture Show”, in Western Evening Herald:]
Nouns inflected like tar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *dóru
3. From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą, from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-, from *dóru (“tree”).
4. See also Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer; also Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian де́рево (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian дърво́ (dărvó, “tree”). More at tree. See: Middle English Nouns '
ter', Old English Nouns '
teoru', Dutch Nouns '
teer', German Nouns '
Teer'.
Verbs referencing "tar"
Swedish Nouns
tjära, Danish Nouns
tjære, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
tjøre.