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Definition of tar boy in English: tar boynoun Australian, NZ A member of a shearing gang whose job is applying disinfectant (formerly tar) to wounds on sheep. he worked as a tar boy and general hand on sheep stations Example sentencesExamples - Board-boys, tar-boys, wool-rollers and piece-pickers are lounging and joking in the wool-room.
- The tar-boy rushed up and smeared hot tar upon the wound.
- Can't you hear the blades clicking and the tar boys tearing down the board.
- Tar-boys dart hither and thither as the cry of "Tar, tar, here" arises when a sheep has been cut by the shears.
- The tar-boy is there waiting in demand, with his blackened tar-pot, in his tarry hand.
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