wood tar

1. 1.

   any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood

   Broadernatural resin

   Narrowerpine tar

Questions about wood tar

What does wood tar mean?

wood tar means "any tar obtained by the destructive distillation of wood".

Is wood tar a common word?

wood 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.