tars
Old salty seamen
Tars is the plural of tar—the dark, thick, sticky substance derived from wood, coal, or petroleum, used for waterproofing and road surfacing.
Tars also serves as the verb form: He tars the roof every spring.
To tar someone is to smear or associate them with something undesirable: The scandal tars everyone involved.
In nautical slang, tars are sailors, from the tar used to waterproof ships and rigging.
Seafaring crew member
- deckhandShip's manual laborer
- seafarerOne who navigates oceans
- marinerOne who navigates ships
- swabbieLowest-ranking naval enlistee
salt · shipmate · boatswain · midshipman · helmsman · caulking · rigging · oakum
Cone-bearing evergreen
aromatic · turpentine · pitch · distillation · creosote · preservative · natural · organic
sailor
Seafaring crew member
swabbie · salt · shipmate · boatswain · midshipman · helmsman · caulking · rigging · oakum · seams
pine
Cone-bearing evergreen
viscous · aromatic · turpentine · pitch · distillation · creosote · preservative · natural · organic · extraction
asphalt
Petroleum-based paving material
roadwork · sealant · pothole · driveway · highway · street · motorway · interstate · resurfacing · paving
cigarette
Paper-wrapped tobacco cylinder
pipe · filter · stain · buildup · carcinogen · yellow · teeth · lungs · combustion · smoke
tarslandlubbers
Non-seafaring people, derisively
landsmen · inlanders · civilians · farmers · mountaineers
- black tarCrude, dark street heroin
- tar pitsNatural bitumen pools
- tarring with the same brushUnfairly judging group by individual
- tarred and featheredVigilante punishment involving hot pitch
- tar and featherVigilante punishment coating victim
- tar sandsBitumen-saturated sediment deposits