TARRED

Definition: TARRED

TARRED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Tar

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "TARRED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Crosswords: TARRED

English words defined with "TARRED": marline ♦ Rudder coat ♦ Shot prop ♦ Tar board, tar-and-feather, To parcel a rope, To parcel a seam. (references)

Specialty definitions using "TARRED": Black Jack ♦ Jack Tar ♦ NERO ♦ TARPAWLIN, tarred brown paper, tarred macadam, TARRING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Licked?! I'm not licked. I'm tarred and feathered, that's all. (Little Big Man; writing credit: Thomas Berger; Calder Willingham)
Movie/TV Titles	Tarred and Feathered (1920)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Tarred, Bituminized, or Asphalted Paper and Paperboard in Rolls or Sheets: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Joseph Smith: Tarred & Feathered (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"TARRED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 42.11% of the time. "TARRED" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	42.11%	24	71,196
Adjective (general or positive)	40.35%	23	72,767
Lexical Verb (past tense)	17.54%	10	111,207
Total	100.00%	57	N/A

Expressions using "TARRED": tarred brown paper ♦ tarred macadam. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "TARRED": tarred-and-feathered.
	Ending with "TARRED": black-tarred, smoke-tarred.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "TARRED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		涂焦油. (various references)

Danish		tjaeret kraftpapir (tarred duo-kraft), tjaeret indpakningspapir (tarred wrapping paper), tjaeremakadam (tarred macadam), tjæresnor (tarred string), tjærepap (bituminous board, tarred board), tjæregarn (tarred string), taevet papir (tarred paper), bitumenpapir (asphalt paper, bitumen paper, pitch paper, tarred brown paper), asfaltpapir (asphalt paper, bitumen paper, pitch paper, tarred brown paper), asfalt,tjære og tjærede produkter (asphalt, tar and tarred products). (various references)

Dutch		teerstrik (tarred string), teerpapier (tarred paper), teermacadam (tarred macadam), teerkarton (bituminous board, tarred board), geteerd papier (tarred paper), geteerd pakpapier (tarred wrapping paper), geteerd duo-kraft (tarred duo-kraft), gebitumineerd karton (bituminous board, tarred board), bitumenpapier (asphalt paper, bitumen paper, pitch paper, tarred brown paper), asfaltkarton (bituminous board, tarred board), asfalt,teer en teerprodukten (asphalt, tar and tarred products). (various references)

Finnish		tervapahvi (bituminous board, tarred board), bitumipaperi (asphalt paper, bitumen paper, pitch paper, tarred brown paper), bitumipahvi (bituminous board, tarred board). (various references)

French		tarmacadam (tarred macadam), papier goudronné d'emballage (tarred wrapping paper), papier goudronné (tarred brown paper, tarred paper), papier d'emballage goudronné (tarred brown paper), papier d'emballage bitumé (tarred brown paper), papier bitumé (tarred brown paper), duo-kraft au goudron (tarred duo-kraft), corde goudronnée (tarred oakum, tarred string), carton goudronné (tarred board), carton bituminé (tarred board), asphalte,goudron,bitume et produits goudronnés (tar and tarred products). (various references)

German		teerte (tars), geteert. (various references)

Greek		κατραμωμένο χαρτί (tarred paper), πισσόχαρτο συσκευασίας (tarred wrapping paper), πισσωμένος σπάγγος (tarred string), πισσασφαλτωμένο χαρτί (tarred paper), άσφαλτος,πίσσα και προϊόντα πίσσας (asphalt, tar and tarred products), ασφαλτωμένο χαρτόνι (bituminous board, tarred board), ασφαλτούχο σκυρόστρωμα (tarred macadam), duo-kraft με πίσσα (tarred duo-kraft). (various references)

Hebrew		מזופת (asphalted, cursed), זפות (asphalted, asphalting, pitched, pitching), זפוף (pitched). (various references)

Hungarian		szigetelő fedéllemez (roofing felt, tarred felt), préselt szigetelő fedéllemez (roofing felt, tarred felt), kátránypapír (roofing felt, tarred felt). (various references)

Italian		treccia di canapa (tarred string), tarmacadam (tarred macadam), cartone incatranato (bituminous board, tarred board), cartone catromato (bituminous board, tarred board), cartone bitumato (bituminous board, tarred board), carta incatramata per imballaggio (tarred wrapping paper), carta impregnata (asphalt paper, bitumen paper, impregnated paper, pitch paper, tarred brown paper), carta duo-Kraft al catrame (tarred duo-kraft), carta catramata (asphalt paper, bitumen paper, pitch paper, tarred brown paper, tarred paper), carta bitumata (asphalt paper, bitumen paper, pitch paper, tarred brown paper), canapa catramata (tarred string), asfalto,catrame e prodotti catramosi (asphalt, tar and tarred products). (various references)

Korean		다rr어d 그리� 깃 (tarred-and-feathered). (various references)

Pig Latin		arredtay.(various references)

Portuguese		tarmacadame (tarred macadam), papel alcatroado para acondicionamento (tarred wrapping paper), papel alcatroado (asphalt paper, bitumen paper, pitch paper, tarred brown paper, tarred paper), mealhar alcatroado (tarred string), duo-Kraft de alcatrão (tarred duo-kraft), corda alcatroada (tarred string), cartão alcatroado (bituminous board, tarred board), asfalto,alcatrão e produtos de alcatrão (asphalt, tar and tarred products). (various references)

Romanian		smolit (pitched), gudronat (pitched, resinous, Tarry). (various references)

Russian		смоленый. (various references)

Spanish		tarmacadán (tarred macadam), papel embreado (asphalt paper, bitumen paper, pitch paper, tarred brown paper), papel alquitranado para embalaje (tarred wrapping paper), papel alquitranado (tarred paper), macadán alquitranado (tarred macadam), doble kraft al alquitrán (tarred duo-kraft), cordón alquitranado (tarred string), cartón embreado (bituminous board, tarred board), cartón bituminado (bituminous board, tarred board), cartón asfaltado (bituminous board, tarred board), asfalto, alquitrán y otros productos alquitranados (asphalt, tar and tarred products). (various references)

Swedish		tjärpapp (bituminous board, tarred board), bitumenpapper (asphalt paper, bitumen paper, pitch paper, tarred brown paper). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "TARRED": costarred, instarred, starred. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"TARRED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaarrree, tarde, tarea, tared, tarei, tarek, tarel, taret, tarid, tarrad, tarrer, tarres, teared, tharrid, thred, Tirard, tirret, torred, turde, Turrel, tyrrid. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "TARRED" (pronounced tÄ"rd)
4	t Ä" r d	retard, starred.
3	-Ä" r d	bard, barred, bombard, canard, card, Chard, charred, disbarred, discard, disregard, Gabbard, guard, hard, jarred, lard, marred, nard, regard, scarred, shard, sparred, sward, yard.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: darter, retard, trader.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-r-r-t"
	-1 letter: darer, dater, derat, drear, rared, rated, rater, tared, tarre, terra, trade, tread.
	-2 letters: dare, dart, date, dear, drat, rare, rate, read, rear, tare, tear, trad.
	-3 letters: are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, err, eta, rad, rat, red, ret, tad, tae, tar, tea, ted.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, ar, at, de, ed, er, et, re, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: darters, drafter, redraft, retards, retread, starred, tardier, tarried, traders, treader.
	+2 letters: adroiter, arrested, bartered, cratered, drafters, draftier, dragster, garroted, gartered, martyred, mortared, narrated, parroted, predator, prorated, raftered, raptured, recrated, redactor, redrafts, redreamt, redstart, regrated, retarded, retarder, rethread, retraced, retreads, roadster, serrated, strander, tawdrier, teardrop, terraced, threader, toreador, traducer, treaders, treadler, trihedra, ultrared.
	+3 letters: aberrated, adulterer, afterward, afterword, armatured, arrogated, bartender, cartridge, chartered, costarred, daytrader, deaerator, decorator, departure, detractor, dewaterer, dragsters, dreariest, drysalter, earthward, fractured, garrotted, instarred, interlard, irradiate, irredenta, irridenta, irrigated, irritated, moderator, outroared, outwarred, overdraft, overrated, overtrade, partnered, partridge, perorated, portrayed, predators, predatory, quartered, ramparted, realtered, recharted, recreated, redactors, redbreast, redrafted, redstarts, refracted, regardant, regrafted, regranted, rehydrate, renatured, reradiate, restarted, retardant, retardate, retarders, retarding, rethreads, retracked, retracted, retrained, retreaded, retreated, roadsters, sternward, straddler, stranders, teardrops, threaders, threadier, toreadors, traceried, trademark, traducers, trailered, traversed, treadlers, treasured, trihedral, ultrareds, underpart, underrate, warranted, waterbird.
	+4 letters: adulterers, adventurer, advertiser, afterwards, afterwords, afterworld, arbitraged, arbitrated, bardolater, bartenders, breadfruit, carbureted, cartridges, cerebrated, correlated, corrugated, daytraders, deaerators, decorators, dehydrator, denigrator, departures, depredator, derogatory, desecrater, desecrator, deterrable, detractors, dewaterers, diarrhetic, distrainer, dramaturge, draughtier, drivetrain, drumbeater, drysalters, drysaltery, earthwards, enraptured, eradicator, forwardest, fratricide, frustrated, hereditary, hitherward, intergrade, interlards, irradiated, irradiates, irredentas, irridentas, martyrized, mercurated, moderators, orthograde, overdrafts, overtraded, overtrades, partridges, perforated, pretrained, pretreated, procreated, prorogated, prostrated, protracted, quadrature, radiometer, radiometry, reaccredit, rearrested, reasserted, reassorted, recaptured, recarpeted, redbreasts, redecorate, redrafting, regathered, rehydrated, rehydrates, reiterated, remarketed, remastered, reoperated, reprobated, repudiator, reradiated, reradiates, rerepeated, restrained, retailored, retardants, retardates, retargeted, rethreaded, retreading, retroacted, retrograde, rubricated, shortbread, sternwards, straddlers, strangered, surrogated, tardigrade, tetrachord, tetrahedra, threadbare, threadworm, tradecraft, trademarks, traditores, transducer, transpired, trihedrals, triradiate, triturated, underparts, underrated, underrates, underreact, undertaker, underwater, waterbirds, yardmaster.
	+5 letters: adulterator, adventurers, advertisers, advertorial, afterworlds, arteritides, arthritides, arthrodeses, arthrodesis, bardolaters, barnstormed, birdwatcher, bladderwort, breadfruits, broadcaster, carburetted, caricatured, carpentered, centerboard, charactered, copartnered, counterraid, decelerator, decerebrate, declaratory, deerstalker, dehydrators, denigrators, denigratory, deprecatory, depreciator, depredators, depredatory, desecraters, desecrators, deteriorate, diarthroses, dipterocarp, directorate, directorial, dissertator, distrainers, doctrinaire, dramaturges, drillmaster, drivetrains, drumbeaters, equatorward, eradicators, extraverted, footdragger, forgathered, fraternized, fratricides, freehearted, gradiometer, grandfather, grandmaster, grandmother, grandparent, groundwater, hairbreadth, hardhearted, headquarter, hindquarter, interdealer, intergraded, intergrades, interlarded, interstrand, intradermal, ironhearted, irradiative, labradorite, madreporite, motherboard, ordinariest, ostracoderm, overreacted, overtrading, overtrained, overtreated, overwatered, perpetrated, petrodollar, predicatory, predoctoral, privateered, quadratures, quarterdeck, racketeered, radiometers, radiometric, radiotracer, reaccredits, rebroadcast, rechartered, recordation, recuperated, redecorated, redecorates, redecorator, reformatted, regenerated, rehydrating, rehydration, remortgaged, remunerated, repatriated, repatterned, replastered, repudiators, reradiating, reradiation, reregulated, retardation, rethreading, retrograded, retrogrades, ringstraked, rudimentary, shortbreads, shorthaired, starboarded, tardigrades, tarradiddle, teeterboard, terraformed, tetrachords, tetradrachm, tetrahedral, tetrahedron, thitherward, threadworms, tradecrafts, trademarked, transcribed, transdermal, transducers, transferred, transformed, transgender, transponder, transported, trifurcated, truehearted, ultramodern, unchartered, underrating, underreacts, undertakers, unirrigated, untraversed, unwarranted, urochordate, veratridine, warmhearted, watermarked, whitherward, yardmasters.
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