pine tar

1. 1.

   a dark viscous substance obtained from the destructive distillation of pine wood

   Broaderwood tar

Questions about pine tar

What does pine tar mean?

pine tar means "a dark viscous substance obtained from the destructive distillation of pine wood".

Is pine tar a common word?

pine tar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.