tarre

• IPA^(key): /tɑɹ/

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

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.

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• tarry

tarre

1. Obsolete form of tar.
   • 1659, Richard Brome

     […] 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.

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

tarre

1. Alternative form of ter