tarre
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English tarien, taryen (“to vex, harass, cause to hesitate, delay”), from Old English tirġan, terġan, tirian (“to worry, exasperate”).
Verb edit
tarre (third-person singular simple present tarres, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)
- (obsolete) To incite; to provoke; to spur on.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], lines 114-116:
- Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes, / And like a dog that is compelled to fight, / Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on.
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
tarre
- Obsolete form of tar.
- 1659, Richard Brome, The Queen and Concubine:
- […] she takes not so much for curing a thousand mortal People, as I have spent in Turpentine and Tarre to keep my Flocklings cleanly in a Spring time.
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Noun edit
tarre
- Alternative form of ter