tar \tar\, v. t. imp.  p. p. tarred; p. pr.  vb. n.
   tarring.
   to smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar
   cloth.
   1913 webster

   to tar and feather a person. see under feather, v. t.
      1913 webster
see also:
tarred tarring to tar and feather a person feather 

tar \tar\, n. abbrev. from tarpaulin.
   a sailor; a seaman. colloq. --swift.
   1913 webster

tar \tar\, n. oe. terre, tarre, as. teru, teoru; akin to d.
   teer, g. teer, theer, icel. tjara, sw. tjaumra, dan.
   tiaere, and to e. tree. root63. see tree.
   a thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation
   of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition
   according to the temperature and material employed in
   obtaining it.
   1913 webster

   coal tar. see in the vocabulary.

   mineral tar min., a kind of soft native bitumen.

   tar board, a strong quality of millboard made from junk and
      old tarred rope. --knight.

   tar water.
   a a cold infusion of tar in water, used as a medicine.
   b the ammoniacal water of gas works.

   wood tar, tar obtained from wood. it is usually obtained by
      the distillation of the wood of the pine, spruce, or fir,
      and is used in varnishes, cements, and to render ropes,
      oakum, etc., impervious to water.
      1913 webster
see also:
tree coal tar mineral tar tar board tar water wood tar 

tar
     n 1: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a
          residue syn: pitch
     2: a man who serves as a sailor syn: mariner, seaman, jack-tar,
         jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog
     v : coat with tar; "tar the roof";  "tar the roads"
     also: tarring, tarred
see also:
pitch mariner seaman jack-tar jack old salt 
seafarer gob sea dog tarring tarred 

177 moby thesaurus words for "tar":
   ab, amytal, amytal pill, ancient mariner, argonaut, demerol,
   dolophine, dylan, flying dutchman, h, luminal, luminal pill, m,
   mickey finn, nembutal, nembutal pill, neptune, od, poseidon,
   seconal, seconal pill, tuinal, tuinal pill, varuna, able seaman,
   able-bodied seaman, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic,
   anodyne, asphalt, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, bedaub,
   besmear, besmirch, black stuff, blacktop, blue, blue angel,
   blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, bluejacket, buccaneer,
   butter, calmative, carpet, causeway, cement, charcoal,
   chloral hydrate, coal, coat, cobblestone, codeine,
   codeine cough syrup, concrete, crow, dab, daub, deep-sea man,
   defile, depressant, depressor, discolor, dolly, downer, ebon,
   ebony, enamel, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, flag, floor, gild,
   gloss, goofball, hard stuff, hearty, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic,
   ink, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, jet, junk, knockout drops,
   lacquer, laudanum, lay on, limey, liquor, lobsterman, lotus,
   mariner, matelot, meperidine, metal, methadone, morphia, morphine,
   narcotic, navigator, night, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer,
   paregoric, pave, pebble, pen yan, phenobarbital,
   phenobarbital sodium, pirate, pitch, prime, privateer,
   purple heart, quietener, rainbow, raven, red, sailor, salt, scag,
   sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman,
   secobarbital sodium, sedative, shipman, shit, slap on, slather,
   sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, sloe,
   smack, smear, smear on, smoke, smut, sodium thiopental, soil,
   somnifacient, soot, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spread on,
   spread with, stain, sully, tarnish, tarpaulin, tranquilizer, turps,
   undercoat, viking, water dog, whaler, white stuff, windjammer,
   windsailor, yellow, yellow jacket

tar
     tape archiver unix
     
     

tar
     
         "tape archive", following ar unix's
        general purpose archive utility and the file format it uses.
        tar was originally intended for use with magnetic tape but,
        though it has several command line options related to tape,
        it is now used more often for packaging files together on
        other media, e.g. for distribution via the internet.
     
        the resulting archive, a "tar file" humourously, "tarball"
        is often compressed, using gzip or some other form of
        compression see tar and feather.
     
        there is a gnu version of tar called gnutar with several
        improvements over the standard versions.
     
        filename extension: .tar
     
        mime type: unregistered, but commonly application/x-tar
     
        unix manual page: tar1.
     
        compare shar, zip.
     
        1998-05-02
     
     
see also:
ar unix archive magnetic tape command line options internet 
gzip tar and feather gnu gnutar filename extension 
mime type unix manual page shar zip