bitumed

Smeared or covered with bitumen.

Adjective

  1. Smeared or covered with bitumen.
    • Sir, we haue a Chiſt beneath the hatches, / Caulkt and bittumed ready. - c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […],...
    • The basket of bulrushes for the infant Moses, when thoroughly bitumed, was well adapted for the object for which it was made. - 1878 August 1, “Lesson LXXXVI”, in The Sabbath School Magazine, volume XXX, number viii,...

Origin

From bitume + -ed.

Forms

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