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tar and feather
(foldoc) | tar and feather
(A sick contrivance from the Unix tar command and
the Ku Klux Klan torture method) To create a transportable
archive from a group of files by first sticking them together
with tar (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the
result. The latter action is dubbed "feathering" (purely for
contrived effect) by analogy to what you do with an aeroplane
propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to
reduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slip
through comm links more easily.
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(1997-05-26)
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tar and feather
(jargon) | tar and feather
vi.
[from Unix tar(1)] To create a transportable archive from a group of files
by first sticking them together with tar(1) (the Tape ARchiver) and then
compressing the result (see compress). The latter action is dubbed
feathering partly for euphony and (if only for contrived effect) by analogy
to what you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or
with an oar to reduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slip
through comm links more easily. Compare the more common tarball. Earlier,
the phrase referred to a punishment in which the victims had tar being
poured upon them and then, whilst the tar was still sticky, having a pillow
full of feathers - or other material — thrown at them. See http://
www.nwta.com/Spy/spring99/tar.html.
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To tar and feather a person
(gcide) | Tar \Tar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tarred; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tarring.]
To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar
cloth.
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To tar and feather a person. See under Feather, v. t.
[1913 Webster]Feather \Feath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feathered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Feathering.]
1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a
cap.
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An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow
feathered from her own wing. --L'Estrange.
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2. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
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A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow
ravines. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.]
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The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious
hours. --Loveday.
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4. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
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They stuck not to say that the king cared not to
plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
--Bacon.
--Dryden.
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5. To tread, as a cock. --Dryden.
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To feather one's nest, to provide for one's self especially
from property belonging to another, confided to one's
care; -- an expression taken from the practice of birds
which collect feathers for the lining of their nests.
To feather an oar (Naut), to turn it when it leaves the
water so that the blade will be horizontal and offer the
least resistance to air while reaching for another stroke.
To tar and feather a person, to smear him with tar and
cover him with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity.
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