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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
creosote .
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Examples
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The hen house was a large ramshackle cage bounded by sagging wire and creosoted posts.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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There™s a V-shaped jump made out of stacked creosoted logs.
Ms Longshot Kurtz, Sylvie 2005
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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.
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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
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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
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Had all the lumber creosoted to make it last good.
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Massive wooden screens nine feet high had been erected and hastily creosoted.
The Saliva Tree Aldiss, Brian 1966
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It produces creosoted poles, furniture, and timber, and employs Africans as clerks, carpenters, and labourers.
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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
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-- All the wooden parts of an outdoor track should be well creosoted before use.
Things To Make Archibald Williams
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