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tar-box|ˈtɑːbɒks|
A box formerly used by shepherds to hold tar as a salve for sheep.
c1420? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 326 The rewde god Pan..Clad in russet frese, & breched lyke a bere, With a gret tar box hangyng by hys syde. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §41 And a shepeherde shoulde not go without his dogge, his shepe hoke, a payre of sheres, and his terre boxe. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. v. ii. 2088 A shepards hooke, a tarbox, and a scrippe. 1658Osborn Jas. I, Wks. (1673) 514 (Spight of his Tarbox) he died of the Scab.
†b. Applied contemptuously to a person: = ‘stinking fellow’. Obs.
a1592Greene Jas. IV, iii. i, Such as rub horses do good service in the commonweal, ergo, tarbox, master courtier, a horse-keeper is a gentleman. 1687Settle Refl. Dryden 12 Tarbox Muly Lahas is not the Fool this bout. |