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Meanings of tar in English

Portuguese
joão
Catalan
mariner
Wikidata

A man who serves as a sailor.

      joão
      Portuguese
      alcatrão
      Catalan
      brea
      Spanish
      pez

      Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.

            alcatrão
            Usage of tar in English
            1
            Read: Incomplete tar road built in rural Eastern Cape cost R117 million
            The South African
            2
            Many European oil companies have major interests in the Canadian tar sands.
            The Guardian
            3
            The tar moves slowly but seven thousand years is a long time.'
            Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
            4
            Canadian officials have called development of the tar sands a national priority.
            The Guardian
            5
            In the tar furnace, the tar itself burns, and the tar only.
            Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
            6
            This cynical approach to tar my reputation has to stop, he added.
            Reuters
            7
            He had a tar kiln; he cut splinters put them on it.
            Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
            8
            The tar-pot fell to the deck, and I very nearly accompanied it.
            Windjammers and Sea Tramps
            9
            It was like a sea of swirling, spiraling tar, thick and viscous.
            Ghost memories
            10
            This is the mine of chapapote or mineral tar of the country.
            Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
            11
            I described finding the hand bones and the glob of pine tar.
            Speaking in Bones
            12
            Of course, he could only do that from underneath the tar-soaked fabric.
            Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
            13
            Two of them carried torches made of old brooms dipped in tar.
            The Rover Boys in Business; Or, The Search for the Missing Bonds
            14
            It moved with sure, fleeting motions across the sodden tar and clay.
            Perdido Street Station
            15
            The costly pine tar was soon replaced by the cheaper coal tar.
            Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891
            16
            He had built the shed well and lined it with tar paper.
            Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California
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