Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A box containing tar, carried by shepherds for anointing sores on sheep.
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Examples
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Lister and his antiseptic surgery better than as the shepherd, with his tar-box by his side; or Kelvin or any other electrician, as the thinking smith, and so on.
Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893
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