tarriest

Adjective

tarry (comparative tarrier, superlative tarriest)

1. (dated) Resembling tar.
   • And he led the way from the station, stopping once to gloat over the sunset across Trafalgar Square, and again to inhale the tarry scent of the warm wood-paving, which was perfume to his nostrils as the din of its traffic was music to his ears, before we came to one of those political palaces which...1909, E[rnest] W[illiam] Hornung, “An Inaugural Banquet”, in Mr. Justice Raffles, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 2

   Synonyms:

   pitchy

2. (dated) Covered with tar.

   Synonyms:

   bituminized, pitchy

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