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tar and feather en · VERB

(transitive) To cover (a person) in sticky tar, then cover in feathers which stick to the tar; an archaic means of humiliating a person.
- ...they'd be along pretty soon and give me 'bout half an hour's start, and then run me down if they could; and if they got me they'd tar and feather me and ride me on a rail, sure. I didn't wait for no breakfast—I warn't hungry. 1884, Mark Twain, chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
- 1855 — George A. Smith, Journal of Discourses, Volume 3 "Preaching the Gospel" "O," say they, "if you talk with a Mormon Elder, you are sure to get worsted; tar and feather them, mob them, and stone them out of the country, for if you listen to them, you will be deceived."

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
tarring and feathering	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
tar-and-feather		alternative	lexicographic
tars and feathers	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
tarred and feathered	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
tarred and feathered	Tense=Past		lexicographic