tarre

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑɹ

Etymology 1

From Middle English tarien, taryen (“to vex, harass, cause to hesitate, delay”), from Old English tirġan, terġan, tirian (“to worry, exasperate”).

Verb

tarre (third-person singular simple present tarres, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

1. (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, [Act IV, scene i], lines 114-116:

     Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes, / And like a dog that is compelled to fight, / Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on.

Related terms

• tarry

Etymology 2

Noun

tarre

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Arter, Terra, arrêt, arter, rater, retar, terra

Middle English

Noun

tarre

1. Alternative form of ter