Crossword clues for tarpit
tarpit
- Mammoth catcher
- Sticky mammoth trapper
- Saber-toothed cat catcher
- Rich source of fossils, perhaps
- One of a La Brea group
- Mammoth-preserving locale
- Mammoth trap?
- La Brea hazard
- Good place to hunt fossils
- Fossil-preserving spot
- Downtown L.A. attraction
- Dinosaur preserver
- Dinosaur bone collector
- Bone collector
- Asphalt trap
- Archaeological treasure trove
Wiktionary
n. a geological occurrence where subterranean bitumen leaks to the surface, creating a lake of asphalt
Wikipedia
A tarpit (also known as Teergrube, the German word for tarpit ) is a service on a computer system (usually a server) that purposely delays incoming connections. The technique was developed as a defense against a computer worm, and the idea is that network abuses such as spamming or broad scanning are less effective, and therefore less attractive, if they take too long. The concept is analogous with a tar pit, in which animals can get bogged down and slowly sink under the surface, like in a swamp.
Usage examples of "tarpit".
There was a tarpit at the heart of the stand of nrara, slicked over with water from an earlier rainfall.
She blasted a landshark coming at her from one side, rolled, twisted, and came up with her back to the tarpit and the screaming bull.
Just as often, however, when that promising director makes the leap from independent/small-budget film it is right into the tarpit of Hollywood overkill.
I found it in a tarpit by sheer accident, and it seems to be fairly well preserved.
There went the gravel roads that gunshot' and ricocheted off the bottom of your car with pebble bullets as you ramshackled toward Oklahoma, there to hit the gumbo, the nice bright-red mud roads steering where Pierce-Arrows capsized and sank in tarpits of sludge, and Fords did swiveling dances from side to side of the slick dance-floor highways before they were seen no more, sinking like primeval beasts into the mud.
His eyes were black as tarpits, and his toffee-coloured skin thickly sown with the darker coin-like scars of smallpox, for his white ancestors had bestowed upon the tribe many of the other virtues of civilization: gunpowder, alcohol and more than one variety of the pox.
His eyes were sunken tarpits, his hair equally inky and pointed upward in such disarray that it might have been struck by lightning, his skin pale, his spade-jaw twice too long for his face and off-center.