Tarpot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tarpot is a noun meaning A pot used for carrying tar.
Meaning
A pot used for carrying tar.
Example Sentences
Tarpots bubbled over driftwood fires where men calked the seams of smacks and shallops and patched their dugout canoes.
“Oh, that’s it,” said Oak, jumping up, and dismissing for the present his thoughts on poor Fanny. “You are a good boy to run and tell me, Cain, and you shall smell a large plum pudding some day as a treat. But, before we go, Cainy, bring the tarpot, and we’ll mark this lot and have done with ’em.”
Word Forms
- tarpots
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cottrel, taar, firepot, polytarp, paintpot, pitch-tar.
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