英语词汇tarred and feathered的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tarred and feathered. At Salem, on September 7, 1768, an informer named Robert Wood “was stripped, tarred and feath- ered and placed on a hogshead under the Tree of Liberty on the Common.” This is the first record of the term tarred and feath- ered in America. Tarring and feathering was a cruel punish- ment where hot pine tar was applied from head to toe on a person and goose feathers were stuck into the tar. The person was then ignited and ridden out of town on a rail (tied to a splintery rail), beaten with sticks and stoned all the while. A man’s skin often came off when he removed the tar. It was a common practice to tar and feather Tories who refused to join the revo- lutionary cause, one much associated with the Liberty Boys, but the practice was known here long before the Revolution. In fact, it dates back even before the first English record of tarring and feathering, an 1189 statute made under Richard the Lion- hearted directing that any convicted thief voyaging with the Crusaders “shal have his head shorne and boyling pitch powred upon his head, and feathers or downe strewn upon the same, whereby he may be known, and so at the first landing place they shal come to, there to be cast up.” Though few have been tarred and feathered or ridden out of town on a rail in recent years, the expression remains to describe anyone subjected to indignity and infamy.

词汇	tarred and feathered
词源	tarred and feathered. At Salem, on September 7, 1768, an informer named Robert Wood “was stripped, tarred and feath- ered and placed on a hogshead under the Tree of Liberty on the Common.” This is the first record of the term tarred and feath- ered in America. Tarring and feathering was a cruel punish- ment where hot pine tar was applied from head to toe on a person and goose feathers were stuck into the tar. The person was then ignited and ridden out of town on a rail (tied to a splintery rail), beaten with sticks and stoned all the while. A man’s skin often came off when he removed the tar. It was a common practice to tar and feather Tories who refused to join the revo- lutionary cause, one much associated with the Liberty Boys, but the practice was known here long before the Revolution. In fact, it dates back even before the first English record of tarring and feathering, an 1189 statute made under Richard the Lion- hearted directing that any convicted thief voyaging with the Crusaders “shal have his head shorne and boyling pitch powred upon his head, and feathers or downe strewn upon the same, whereby he may be known, and so at the first landing place they shal come to, there to be cast up.” Though few have been tarred and feathered or ridden out of town on a rail in recent years, the expression remains to describe anyone subjected to indignity and infamy.
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