A small silver coin formerly current on the Malabar coast, especially at Tellicherri and Calicut. Sixteen tars of Calicut equal one fanam; one tar of Tellicherri is equivalent to four reas, and one hundred tars equal one rupee, any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue, a man who serves as a sailor, verb_ coat with tar, computing To create a tar archive, transitive verb_ To coat with or as if with tar, To smear with tar, or as with tar