What is "tarred"

Usage examples of "tarred".

He wore nothing but a pair of stained homespun breeches, tied at the waist with a length of tarred rope, and was burned so dark by the sun that he might have been a Negro, save for the spill of long black hair that fell over one shoulder, decorated with bits of shell and tiny dried starfish tied into it.

The folds of tarred cords wrapped around the long hull of the pronged submarine.

Wide lakes of putrid water and huge mounds of debris and filth lay everywhere, but in amongst the mud and the undergrowth, makeshift cabins had been thrown together with rooves of tarred canvas.

He could feel, taste, smell, and see everything with an instant still intensity, the animate fixation of a vision seen instantly, fixed for ever in the mind of him who sees it, and sense the clumped dusty autumn masses of the trees that bordered the tracks upon the left, and smell the thick exciting hot tarred caulking of the tracks, the dry warmth and good worn wooden smell of the powerful railway ties, and see the dull rusty red, the gaping emptiness and joy of a freight car, its rough floor whitened with soft siltings of thick flour, drawn in upon a spur of rusty track behind a warehouse of raw concrete blocks, and see with sudden desolation, the warehouse flung down rawly, newly, there among the hot, humid, spermy, nameless, thick-leaved field-growth of the South.

A javelin, tarred and flaming, snapped from some springal, thudded into the stem castle.

Guido Georges Marie de la Tournee was seen to give the warrant-officer a package wrapped in newspaper and tied with tarred string.

He stood on the tarred pavement, unbuckled his belt, and slid his holster off the leather strip.

The forlorn remnant of the station, an unsheltered telephone box, and a tarred platform that runs for fifty yards along the tracks .

That he, who never subscribed to the perversities which condemned his faith, was tarred with the same brushstroke is a tragedy.

The young man had a history of violence and severe mental disturbance, and the Fools were not to blame for providing him with an outlet, but they were all comprehensively tarred with the same brush of dangerous madness, and within a few months they had dispersed.

Through the open doorway a slatternly woman was visible behind a plank set on a couple of kegs, dispensing what might charitably be termed whisky to a barefoot white man in the togs and tarred pigtail of a British sailor, a keelboatman whose clothing and body could be smelled from the door, and a couple of the weariest, grubbiest whores January had ever seen in his life.

Wide lakes of putrid water and huge mounds of debris and filth lay everywhere, but in amongst the mud and the undergrowth, makeshift cabins had been thrown together with rooves of tarred canvas.

Nantucketer with disdain, since even in our woollen frocks and tarred trowsers we are much better entitled to St.

It consisted of seven copper wires covered with gutta-percha and wound with tarred hemp.

Thus, just as many Arabs tend to blame their own political, social, and economic problems on Israel--thus heightening their emotions--so the United States is often tarred with the same brush.