Usually means: Punishment using hot tar, feathers.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word tar and feather:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. tar and feather: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tar and feather: Merriam-Webster
  3. tar and feather: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tar and feather: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tar-and-feather: Vocabulary.com
  6. tar-and-feather, tar and feather: Wiktionary
  7. tar-and-feather, tar and feather: Dictionary.com
  8. Tar and feather: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. tar-and-feather: Rhymezone
  10. tar-and-feather: FreeDictionary.org
  11. tar-and-feather: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. tar-and-feather, tar and feather: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tar and feather: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. tar and feather: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tar and feather: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tar and feather: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tar and Feather, The Tar and Feather: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (tar and feather)

verb:  (transitive) To cover (a person) in sticky tar, then cover in feathers which stick to the tar; an archaic means of humiliating a person.

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