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What does tarpaper mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word tarpaper? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A heavy paper, coated with tar, used to waterproof walls and roofs.
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Except there's no sheetrock, only the black tarpaper they use to cover insulation and the beams and studs of the frame.
Some 10,000 Lakota Sioux resided there during the 1970s, many living in tarpaper shacks without electricity or running water.
Many agricultural workers continue to live the equivalent of an old-South sharecropper existence in tarpaper shacks, plywood shanties and wooden boxcars with no running water.
The walls will be of shiplap, covered with matched siding, with tarpaper between.
The runways were lengthened and tarpaper shacks and other buildings were built in a matter of a few months.
As a lad, I wandered onto a patch of land with a tarpaper shack occupied by, as I learned later, a hermit.

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