[
UK
/kɹɪˈɒsəʊt/
]
[ US /ˈkɹiəˌsoʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹiəˌsoʊt/ ]
VERB
-
treat with creosote
creosoted wood
NOUN
- a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood
- a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic
How To Use creosote In A Sentence
- The boracic powder was lifted in my absence from the _Pharmacie_ to try and get the first glimmerings of a slide on that sticky creosoted floor. Fanny Goes to War
- New flora grew on the shore: Desert scrub, creosote bush, saltbush, and tamarisk.
- A substance, derived from the wood called creosote, is used to help human and animal medicinal causes. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- They consisted of a curved U-tube filled with mercury attached to a bulb containing creosote.
- Of fear mingled with the high whiff of disinfectants, of chloride and creosote. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
- The contamination in the soil in this project is mostly creosote, a product used on railway ties and telephone poles.
- Agnes was leaning over the creosoted garden-gate, and behind her there stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one.
- A factory which distilled a good standard tar for roofing paper recovered, besides benzole and naphtha, also about ten per cent. of creosote oil, used for one hundred parts raw paper, 176.4 partially distilled tar. Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891
- But I went alone, reassured in the north by the desert, the barrenness interrupted by the stolid saguaro, the gnarled creosote. The Right Thing
- Even now, dressed in shabby jeans and a torn shirt and smelling strongly of creosote, she was lovely. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
