Usually means: Punishment using hot tar, feathers.
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  1. tarring and feathering: Merriam-Webster
  2. Tarring and feathering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. TARRING AND FEATHERING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  4. Tarring and Feathering: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Tarring and feathering)

▸ noun:  a form of public torture where a victim is stripped naked, or stripped to the waist, while wood tar (sometimes hot) is either poured or painted onto the person.


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