bitumed

English

Etymology

Adjective

bitumed (comparative more bitumed, superlative most bitumed)

(obsolete) Smeared with bitumen.
- c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
  Sir, we haue a Chiſt beneath the hatches,
  Caulkt and bittumed ready.
- 1878 August 1, “Lesson LXXXVI”, in The Sabbath School Magazine‎^[1], volume XXX, number viii, page 191:
  The basket of bulrushes for the infant Moses, when thoroughly bitumed, was well adapted for the object for which it was made.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bitumed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)