tar-barrel

Ailsie Gourlay was not indeed fool enough to acknowledge a compact with the Evil One, which would have been a swift and ready road to the stake and tar-barrel.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

‘I will send you to your master, the devil, with the help of a tar-barrel and a torch!’

Redgauntlet 2008

But the cranes make war with them continually, against which they do most courageously defend themselves; for these little ends of men and dandiprats (whom in Scotland they call whiphandles and knots of a tar-barrel) are commonly very testy and choleric; the physical reason whereof is, because their heart is near their spleen.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

But the cranes make war with them continually, against which they do most courageously defend themselves; for these little ends of men and dandiprats (whom in Scotland they call whiphandles and knots of a tar-barrel) are commonly very testy and choleric; the physical reason whereof is, because their heart is near their spleen.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The outer oak, cracked and blistered to the likeness of an ancient tar-barrel, bore an inscription, dim with long years -- 'Fellowship, Freemantle, and Barter' -- and the names were repeated on the doorpost at the entrance.

Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

Kilroot was a noisy, bulky man, with a whiff of the tar-barrel ever about him and a heart as stout as a ship's biscuit.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

At Biggar in Lanarkshire it was customary to "burn out the old year" with bonfires, while at Burghead in Morayshire a tar-barrel called the

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

Not less graphic, it may be said, is the mimicry of his apparent revolution by swinging a burning tar-barrel round a pole.

Chapter 63. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals. § 2. The Solar Theory of the Fire-festivals 1922

Not less graphic, it may be said, is the mimicry of his apparent revolution by swinging a burning tar-barrel round a pole.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

“I will send you to your master, the devil, with the help of a tar-barrel and a torch!

Wandering Willie’s Tale 1921