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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of creosote.

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Examples

  • The hen house was a large ramshackle cage bounded by sagging wire and creosoted posts.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • There™s a V-shaped jump made out of stacked creosoted logs.

    Ms Longshot Kurtz, Sylvie 2005

  • Park development where the so-called house was a desk-size roof of corrugated iron held up at one end by the wall of a toilet and at the other by two creosoted poles.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • At the end of the next garden, a shed about eight feet by six, in creosoted wood with a green felt roof.

    Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995

  • Then the wind blew a hole in the snow and he saw the small creosoted hut on the far side.

    Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984

  • Had all the lumber creosoted to make it last good.

    Oral History Interview with Frank Gilbert, Summer 1977. Interview H-0121. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1977

  • Massive wooden screens nine feet high had been erected and hastily creosoted.

    The Saliva Tree Aldiss, Brian 1966

  • It produces creosoted poles, furniture, and timber, and employs Africans as clerks, carpenters, and labourers.

    South Africa: The Peasants Revolt 1964

  • 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 Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • -- All the wooden parts of an outdoor track should be well creosoted before use.

    Things To Make Archibald Williams

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