Tar

Tar - Other Definitions

• (n.) A sailor; a seaman.
  
  
• (n.) A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.
  
  
• (v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
  
  
• (imp. & p. p.) of Tare
  
  
• (a.) Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.