Definition/Meaning of tarre
- English - Verb: 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,…
- English - Noun: tarre (obsolete) 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.
- English - Anagrams: arter , rater , Terra , terra
- English - Etymology: From Middle English tarien, taryen (“to vex, harass, cause to hesitate, delay”), from Old English tirġan, terġan, tirian (“to worry, exasperate”).
- English - Pronunciation: IPA: /tɑɹ/ Rhymes: -ɑɹ