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tare

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4 lettersPronunciation /tɛə/Part of speech nounSorted aertStarts with TEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. The weight of an empty container, subtracted to measure contents accurately.

Word origin

From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.

Used in a sentence

  • But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
  • I saw as I thought an uncle and guardian who has led a sober, industrious and Christian life and finds himself obliged to look on the tares of folly in his own close kin.
  • What is the neat weight of 4 hogsheads of tobacco, each weighing 10cwt. 3qrs. 10lb. gross; — tare 100lb. per hdd.?

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