Wiktionary
alt. To cover a person in sticky tar, then covered in feathers which stick to the tar. An archaic means of humiliating a person. vb. To cover a person in sticky tar, then covered in feathers which stick to the tar. An archaic means of humiliating a person.
WordNet
v. smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers; done in some societies as punishment; "The thief was tarred and feathered"
Usage examples of "tar-and-feather".
Before the evening ended, the attending voters stood prepared to tar-and-feather any discount chain executive who might set foot in Greenbriar, and it wa.
I was plastered with muck like a tar-and-feather merchant, but I still had my gun, and then I must have trod on a loose stone, for I pitched headlong, and went rolling and bumping down the slope, hit a rock, and finished up winded and battered in a burn, trying frantically to scramble up, and slithering on the slimy gravel underfoot.