tare

Example Sentences

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Shakspeare uses "tarre him on" in the first sense.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis

For example, the choice of the word "tarre" at 105.28:8 evinces artistry of the highest order. 107.1-7.

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund

Nor vpon France for woad, baysalt, and Gascoyne wines, nor on Eastland for flaxe, pitch, tarre, mastes, &c.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Hakluyt, Richard

Faith, there has been much to do on both sides; and the nation     holds it no sin to tarre them to controversy.

From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William

The Russians do spin and hachell it, and the English tarre it in threed and lay the cable.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Hakluyt, Richard