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tar
tar is a 3-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sailor; a seaman. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 3 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A sailor; a seaman.
- 2noun
A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.
- 3transitive verb
To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
- 4noun
a man who serves as a sailor
- 5noun
any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
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- 6verb
coat with tar
"tar the roof"
"tar the roads"
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