Thar
[ta:(r);ta:(r),tə:(r)]
Definition
(n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo.
(v. impersonal, pres.) It needs; need.
Checker: Thomas
Examples
- S'pose they'd have me thar? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Go thar; they're kind folks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If niggers is quiet, and don't try to get off, they has good times with me; and if they don't, why, it's thar fault, and not mine. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She made me sleep in her room; and I had to put it away off in a little kind o' garret, and thar it cried itself to death, one night. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thar she was, showing em, as innocent--ye see, it's jest here, Jinny _don't know_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Laws, it's my har _grease_;--I put it thar to have it handy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thar, said she, gathering it up, and holding it, with a trembling hand, to her mistress, don't never want to see nor hear on 't again. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yes; but he'll get another thar. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- My name's Tom; the little chil'en used to call me Uncle Tom, way back thar in Kentuck. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yer ought ter look up to the Lord above--he's above all--thar don't a sparrow fall without him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I'm in the Lord's hands, said Tom; nothin' can go no furder than he lets it;--and thar's _one_ thing I can thank him for. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Now I think on 't, I think I hearn 'em tell that dat ar road was all fenced up and down by der creek, and thar, an't it, Andy? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Them as sells heart's love and heart's blood, to get out thar scrapes, de Lord'll be up to 'em! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I laid out to wash that a,--that's why I put it thar. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thar,--I set his plate just whar he likes it round by the fire. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But real gentlemen, such as I hopes you'll be, never lets fall on words that isn't 'spectful to thar parents. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- No; but she telled me, this morning, she was coming nearer,--thar's them that tells it to the child, Miss Feely. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thar's no kind o' danger but they'll help you,--they're up to all that sort o' thing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Lord, thar's women enough everywhar, said Haley. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thar, Andy, you may have dat ar bone,--tan't picked quite clean. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Heaps on 'em, said Sam, triumphantly; thar's Bruno--he's a roarer! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mas'r says I shall go to torment, and I tell him I've got thar now! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Here one of the boys called out, Thar's Missis a-comin' in! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thar's some tickets in that ar old cracked jug on the top shelf, said Dinah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I looks like gwine to heaven, said the woman; an't thar where white folks is gwine? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thar, boys, ye shall have some, poor critturs! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The best I can do is to tell ye to go _thar_, said he, pointing to a large white house which stood by itself, off the main street of the village. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Thar's allers instruments ris up to do de Lord's will. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I know thar ways--mean as dirt, they is! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So, now, you hold on to her, and grow up, and be a comfort to her, thar's my own good boy,--you will now, won't ye? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Checker: Thomas