TAR AND FEATHER

Meaning of TAR AND FEATHER in English

v. To pour heated tar on and cover with feathers as a punishment. In the Old West bad men were sometimes tarred and feathered and driven out of town.

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TAR AND FEATHER — phrasal to smear (a person) with tar and cover with feathers as a punishment or indignity
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TAR AND FEATHER — phrasal : to smear (a person) with tar and cover with feathers as a punishment or indignity tarred and feathered …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TAR AND FEATHER — punish, impose a severe or humiliating punishment
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
TAR AND FEATHER — : to smear (a person) with tar and cover with feathers as a punishment or indignity
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TAR AND FEATHER — to smear (a person) with tar and cover with feathers as a punishment or indignity
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
TAR AND FEATHER — smear with tar and then cover with feathers as a punishment. → tar
Concise Oxford English vocab
TAR AND FEATHER — {v.} To pour heated tar on and cover with feathers as a punishment. * /In the Old West bad men …
Slang English vocab
TAR AND FEATHER — < jargon > (A sick contrivance from the Unix tar command and the Ku Klux Klan torture method) To create …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
TAR AND FEATHER — {v.} To pour heated tar on and cover with feathers as a punishment. * /In the Old West bad men …
Словарь английских идиом
TAR AND FEATHER — punish severely The teacher said that she would tar and feather anyone who didn`t do their homework.
English Idioms vocab
TAR AND FEATHER — [from Unix tar(1) ] To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with …
Jargon File English vocabulary
TAR AND FEATHER — линчевать, т.е. вымазав дегтем, обвалять в перьях (способ самосуда, использовавшийся в США времен Гражданской войны)
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
TAR AND FEATHER — вымазав дегтем
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
TAR AND FEATHER — вымазав дегтем
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
TAR AND FEATHER — линчевать, т. е. вымазав дегтем, обвалять в перьях ( способ самосуда, использовавшийся в США времен Гражданской войны )
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
TAR AND FEATHER — линчевать, т. е. вымазав дегтем, обвалять в перьях (способ самосуда, использовавшийся в США времен Гражданской войны)
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
TAR — I. ˈtär, ˈtȧ(r noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English tarr, terr, from Old English teoru; akin to Middle Low …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FEATHER — I. ˈfethə(r) noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English fether, from Old English; akin to Old High German federa wing, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TAR — (v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
Английский словарь Webster
TAR — ( v. t. ) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
TAR — tar 1 /tahr/ , n. , v. , tarred, tarring , adj. n. 1. any of various dark-colored viscid products …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FEATHER — — featherless , adj. — featherlessness , n. — featherlike , adj. /fedh"euhr/ , n. 1. one of the horny …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FEATHER — v. produce feathers; furnish with feathers, decorate with feathers, stuff with feathers; resemble a feather; move like a feather
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
TAR — I. ˈtär noun Etymology: Middle English terr, tarr, from Old English teoru; akin to Old English trēow tree — more …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FEATHER — I. ˈfe-thər noun Etymology: Middle English fether, from Old English; akin to Old High German federa wing, Latin petere to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TAR — noun a sailor; a seaman. 2. tar ·vt to smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; …
Webster English vocab
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Webster English vocab
TAR — [tar] n [ME terr, tarr, fr. OE teoru; akin to OE treow tree--more at tree] (bef. 12c) 1 a: a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FEATHER — [feath.er] n [ME fether, fr. OE; akin to OHG federa wing, L petere to go to, seek, Gk petesthai to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TAR — (Iranian: string), long-necked lute descended from the tanbur of Sasanian Iran and known in a variety of forms throughout the …
Britannica English vocabulary
FEATHER — the component structure of the outer covering and flight surfaces of all modern birds. Unique to birds, feathers apparently evolved …
Britannica English vocabulary
FEATHER — feath|er BrE AmE ˈfeð |ə AmE -| ə r ▷ feath|ered əd AmE ə rd ▷ feath|ering ə r‿ɪŋ ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
TAR — / tɑː(r); NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun [ U ] 1. a thick black sticky liquid that becomes …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FEATHER — / ˈfeðə(r); NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun one of the many soft light parts covering a bird's body …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TAR — I. tar 1 /tɑː $ tɑːr/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: teoru ] 1 . …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FEATHER — I. feath ‧ er 1 /ˈfeðə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: fether ] …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TAR — n. & v. --n. 1 a dark thick inflammable liquid distilled from wood or coal etc. and used as a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FEATHER — n. & v. --n. 1 any of the appendages growing from a bird's skin, with a horny hollow stem and …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
TAR — n. & v. n. 1 a dark thick inflammable liquid distilled from wood or coal etc. and used as a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FEATHER — n. & v. n. 1 any of the appendages growing from a bird's skin, with a horny hollow stem and …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
TAR — 1. n. & v. --n. 1. a dark thick inflammable liquid distilled from wood or coal etc. and used as …
Oxford English vocab
FEATHER — n. & v. --n. 1. any of the appendages growing from a bird's skin, with a horny hollow stem and …
Oxford English vocab
TAR — ( tars, tarring, tarred) 1. Tar is a thick black sticky substance that is used especially for making roads. N-UNCOUNT …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FEATHER — ( feathers) 1. A bird’s feathers are the soft covering on its body. Each feather consists of a lot of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TAR — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES coal tar ▪ coal tar soap EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A naked man covered …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FEATHER — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a feather bed (= a bed with feathers in the mattress ) as light …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FEATHER
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FEATHER — See: BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER, TAR AND FEATHER, FINE FEATHERS DO NOT MAKE FINE BIRDS, FUSS AND FEATHERS, …
Slang English vocab
TAR — Don't lose a sheep for a halfpennyworth of tar: tar is used to mark sheep. A jack tar; a sailor.
Slang English vocab
FEATHER — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ breast , neck , tail , wing ▪ ostrich , peacock , etc. ▪ flight ▪ a …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
FEATHER — n. 25B6; noun PLUME, quill, flight feather, tail feather; Ornithology covert, plumule; ( feathers ) plumage, feathering, down.
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
TAR — < file format > ("Tape ARchive", following ar ) Unix 's general purpose archive utility and the file format it …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
TAR — 1. сущ. 1) смола; деготь; гудрон coal tar ≈ угольная смола Syn : resin, pitch to beat, knock, whale the …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FEATHER — 1. сущ. 1) а) перо (у птиц) pluck feathers a feather in one's cap feather ball б) собир. или мн. …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
TAR — tar.ogg _I 1. tɑ: n 1. смола; дёготь; гудрон; вар mineral tar - минеральная смола to extract tar from gas …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FEATHER — feather.ogg 1. ʹfeðə n 1. перо ( птичье ) as light as a feather - лёгкий как пёрышко 2. тж. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
TAR — 1) гудрон || гудронировать 2) дёготь || пропитывать дёгтем 3) смола || пропитывать смолой, смолить • - acid tar tar …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
TAR — 1) гудрон || гудронировать 2) дёготь || пропитывать дёгтем 3) смола || пропитывать смолой, смолить • - acid tar tar - aromatic tar - asphaltic tar - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
TAR — 1) высмаливать 2) дёготь 3) дегтярный 4) насмаливать 5) смола 6) смолистый 7) гудрон • brown coal tar — буроугольный деготь - acid tar - coke-oven tar - crude tar - excise …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
TAR — _I 1. tɑ: n 1. смола; дёготь; гудрон; вар mineral tar - минеральная смола to extract tar from gas - …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
FEATHER — 1. ʹfeðə n 1. перо ( птичье ) as light as a feather - лёгкий как пёрышко 2. тж. pl …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
TAR — 1. сущ. 1) смола; деготь; гудрон coal tar — угольная смола Syn: resin , pitch •• to beat, knock, whale …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
FEATHER — 1. сущ. 1) а) перо ( у птиц ) - a feather in one's cap - feather ball - pluck …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике

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