pine-tar rag

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   baseball equipment consisting of a rag soaked with pine tar; used on the handle of a baseball bat to give a batter a firm grip

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Questions about pine-tar rag

What does pine-tar rag mean?

pine-tar rag means "baseball equipment consisting of a rag soaked with pine tar; used on the handle of a baseball bat to give a batter a firm grip".

Is pine-tar rag a common word?

pine-tar rag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.