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tar-box (ˈtɑːbɒks) A box formerly used by shepherds to hold tar as a salve for sheep.c 1420 ? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 326 The rewde god Pan..Clad in russet frese, & breched lyke a bere, With a gret tar box hangyng by hys syde. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §41 And a shepeherde shoulde not go without his dogge...
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tar-barrel
tar-barrel (ˈtɑːˌbærəl) A barrel containing or that has contained tar: esp. as used for making a bonfire; formerly also in the carrying out of capital punishment by burning.c 1450 B.M. Add. MS. 10036 (Destr. Jerus. by Vespasian) lf. 24 With bowes schot and with arblast, With tarbarelle and with wild...
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tarre
▪ I. tar, n.1 (tɑː(r)) Forms: α. 1 teru, teoru (-o), (-tearo); 3–5 (6– Sc.) ter, 4 (Sc. 4–) terr, 4–6 terre, 4–5 teer, (5 tere). β. 4–7 tarre, 4–8 tarr, 5 taar, 6– tar. γ. 1 tyrwe, 2 tirwe. [OE. teru (gen. terw-es), teoru (-o):—*terwo- neut. = MLG. ter. tere, LG. and (thence) mod.Ger. teer, Du. teer...
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hook
▪ I. hook, n.1 (hʊk) Forms: 1 hóc (hooc), 2–4 hoc, 3–5 hok, ? 3, 4–6 hoke, 4 Sc. houk, howk, 4–6 Sc. huke, 5–7 hooke, (6 hoocke, 7 Sc. hwick), 7– hook. [OE. hóc = MLG. hôk, MDu. hoec, Du. hoek, MLG. hôk corner, angle, nook, point of land. In ablaut relation with OE. haca ‘pessulus’, a (? hooked) bol...
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box
▪ I. box, n.1 Bot. (bɒks) Also 4–7 boxe. [OE. box, ad. L. bux-us box-tree, Gr. πύξος.] 1. A genus (Buxus) of small evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Euphorbiaceæ; specially B. sempervirens, the Common or Evergreen Box-tree, a native of Europe and Asia; a shrub with deep-green leaves of a thick...
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