Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mixture of hair and tar for covering a ship's bottom.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Naut.) A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun nautical, historical A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • I spent the last summer in India, and after 100 hours of consecutive heavy rain (with windows opened as we didnt have AC), i got to start to be nervously pissed by the ploc ploc ploc sound it would do on pretty much everything (even worst if there is a lot of large leaves vegetation nearby you).

    Rain Continues Its Toll Michael Turton 2006

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