tervata — meaning in English

English meaning

• pay verb To give money in exchange for goods, services, or work.
• tar noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.

Senses

tervata is used for these senses in English:

• pay (nautical, transitive) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
• tar (transitive) To coat with tar.

pay — full definition

1. verb To give money in exchange for goods, services, or work.
2. verb To be worthwhile or profitable.
3. noun Money received for work; wages or salary.

tar — full definition

1. noun A thick, dark, sticky substance made from coal or wood, used in roofing and road-making.
2. verb To coat something with tar.
3. noun In computing, a program (and the archive file it creates) used to bundle multiple files together on Unix-based systems.

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