Crossword clues for creosoted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Creosote \Cre"o*sote\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Creosoted (-s?"t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Creosoting.] To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: creosote)
Usage examples of "creosoted".
Each of its lodgepole-pine timbers had been well picked and creosoted, adzed only slightly on top to form a washboard passage between the dark steep-roofed tunnel.
A line of creosoted wooden piles from an old dock served to tie up the barges.
The view was depressing - the brown creosoted back of a hut, a grey waste of sky and the rain driving.
William lost control and needed support, he leaned against the creosoted fence dividing their house from its neighbour.
They were retreats from the city and the city's formality, little more than unornamented shacks with deep shaded porches and weathered clapboard siding perched on creosoted timbers to raise them above the blistering summer sands.
The gates came up and they moved again and now they were in the lee of the norther and the wooden-hulled ships of the pitiful and grotesque wartime merchant marine lay against the creosoted pilings of the wooden docks and the scum of the harbor lay along their sides blacker than the creosote of the pilings and foul as an uncleaned sewer.
Scrambling down through the zig-zag of creosoted trestle timbers, he finally crouched behind a concealing clump of prickly pear cactus which opened on a view of his car, the parked Jaguar, the fence and the stretch of grassland extending out to the cliff edge.