Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TAR'RI-ER
TAR'RI-ER, n.
- A dog. [See Terrier.]
- [from tarry.] One who tarries or delays. [“Tarrier, in a poet contemporary with Shakspeare, appears with a marginal explanation, as being an unusual word.” Westm. Rev. No. 27, p. 86. – E. H. B.]
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