tarpit

[tahr-pit]

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noun

seepage of natural tar or asphalt, especially an accumulation that has acted as a natural trap into which animals have fallen and sunk and had their bones preserved.

Also, tar pit.

Origin:
1830–40; tar¹ + pit¹

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