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tarpot

tarpot noun: a pot used for carrying tar.

Noun

tarpot (plural tarpots)

  1. A pot used for carrying tar.
    • “Oh, that’s it,” said Oak, jumping up, and dismissing for the present his thoughts on poor Fanny. “You are a good boy to run and tell me, Cain, and you shall smell a large plum pudding some day as a treat. But, before we go, Cainy, bring the tarpot, and we’ll mark this lot and have done with ’em.”1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
    • Tarpots bubbled over driftwood fires where men calked the seams of smacks and shallops and patched their dugout canoes.1964, Robert Carse, The seafarers: a history of maritime America, 1620-1820

Forms of tarpot

pluraltarpots

Origin of tarpot

From tar + pot.

Questions about tarpot

What does tarpot mean?
Tarpot means a pot used for carrying tar.
What part of speech is tarpot?
Tarpot is a noun.
What is the plural of tarpot?
The plural of tarpot is tarpots.

Words near tarpot in the dictionary

  1. Tarplin
  2. tarpon
  3. Tarpon Springs
  4. tarpons
  5. Tarporley
  6. tarpot
  7. tarpots
  8. tarps
  9. tarpum
  10. tarpums
  11. Tarqeq

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