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Tar(r)it, Tarred, Tarr'd, Tar(r)d, ppl. adj. [17th c. Eng. tar'd (1615), tarr'd (1688).] Covered in or impregnated with tar. 1582 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 125.
vii faddonnis greit tarit tow 1593 Edinb. Test. XXV 255.
Of towis tarrit & vntarrit 1608–9 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 562.
For thrie gritt tarrit towis to the bell … xxiiij s. 1612–13 Ayr B. Acc. 256.
[For] tarrit [and] quhyte [rope] 1633 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 368.
[Apprised from him] ane hornit broun bellit kow with ane calf at her fuitt pryce thairof tuentie merkis [which was] tarrit with his tar 1641 Acts V 658/1.
Whyt cleane wooll, tarred or layd wooll [etc.] 1684 Symson Descr. Galloway 73.
Moor-wool … the best of the three sorts, being very cleane, because not tarr'd, and consequently much whiter 1707 Conv. Burghs IV 435.
That each of the saids burghs shall imploy the sum received be them in manufactoring tarrd or laid wooll

b. (Ane) tard ledder, = Tarledder n., in transf. use. 1589 Crail B. Ct. 25 Nov.
Thomas [said] … be Goddis wondis he suld tak ane tard ledder off the said James from neck to heill