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Definition of Tarpaper

1. a heavy paper coated with tar [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarpaper

Literary usage of Tarpaper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Hunting Dog: Modern Strains of Bird Dogs and Hounds, and Their by Warren Hastings Miller (1919)
"Then, with a circular saw, cut a dog door in one side of the end, 10 by 16 inches, and the kennel is ready to line inside with ordinary tarpaper, which the ..."

2. Pamphlets on Wood PreservationWood (1900)
"... and a proper cushion of tarpaper or creosote saturated asbestos paper should be provided. If the bridge is a double decker, and it is necessary to ..."

3. Wild Land Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium: Proceedings edited by Bruce A. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Hayley, David K. Mann (1996)
"The open-bottom tarpaper pots worked well to keep the shrubs from becoming rootbound. But during planting, the pots should have been cut vertically several ..."

4. Structural Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of by Milo Smith Ketchum (1918)
"... span. tiote:-Number of Railing Posts varies with length of Span. £_._C „..„£ C \tarpaper-three layers ..."

5. With the Yankee Division in France by Frank Palmer Sibley (1919)
"Ruined buildings, broken-down walls, even innocent-looking sheets of tarpaper, all concealed the deadly machine guns. As fast as anything began to sputter, ..."

6. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1906)
"Scottie, one of our employed natives at Fullerton, has a small shack made of rough boards and tarpaper, and with a stove in it. ..."

7. American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II by Henry Harley Arnold, John W. Huston (2001)
"... knocked out most of the windows and doors so that everywhere in the courtyard the windows and doors are covered over by canvas and black tarpaper. ..."

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