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tarring out

tarring out is the present participle and gerund of tar out.

Meaning of tar out

Verb

tar out (third-person singular simple present tars out, present participle tarring out, simple past and past participle tarred out)

  1. (dated, slang, transitive) To punish; to pay back or take revenge on.
    • We had him stopped the year before, the time we whupped him at Stone's River at the end of Sixty-two: we tarred him out so bad he had to wait.1937, Thomas Wolfe, Chickamauga

Questions about tarring out

What is tarring out the present participle and gerund of?
Tarring out is the present participle and gerund of tar out.

Words near tarring out in the dictionary

  1. tarrifying
  2. tarrily
  3. tarriness
  4. tarring
  5. tarring and feathering
  6. tarring out
  7. tarring with the same brush
  8. tarring with the same stick
  9. tarring-and-feathering
  10. tarrings
  11. Tarrington

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