Definition of To tar and feather a person. Meaning of To tar and feather a person. Synonyms of To tar and feather a person

- Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture where a victim is stripped naked, or stripped to the waist, while wood tar (sometimes hot) is either...
- attach feathers to the tar, which would remain stuck on the tarred person for the duration of the punishment. That person would then become a public example...
- lynching of Olli Kinkkonen in Minnesota, and a spree of 1918 tarring and feathering events in Wisconsin and California. On April 6, 1917, the United States...
- Kinkkonen had been tarred and feathered. They later published a letter from a group called the Knights of Loyalty or Knights of Liberty, a nationalist secret...
- a downtown hotel by a mob of fifty men who put a bag over his head, handcuffed him, and drove him to the country, where he was tarred and feathered....
- and Us Society. He was probably the last person in New England to be subjected to the traditional mob-led humiliations of tarring and feathering and riding...
- Lutheranville – A hamlet west of Summit village near the western town line. It was once called "Tar Hollow" due to a tarring and feathering incident. Rossman...
- French and Indian War. Some radical Patriots tarred and feathered tax collectors and customs officers, making those positions dangerous; according to Benjamin...
- ancient ****yrian law and the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi and extending into the 1800s in parts of the US) and tarring and feathering. Public shaming can...
- designed to be humiliating, e.g. tarring and feathering lawbreakers, pillory, "mark of shame" (stigma) as a means of "making an example" of a person and presenting...