tarry

«tarry» in Mova's school dictionary: to stay somewhere for a while or to wait before going on — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (tarry, tarries, tarried, tarrying)

meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) To tarry is to stay somewhere for a while or to wait before going on. tree →

2) (old use) To tarry is to be slow to act, or to delay. tree →

sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a hero is asked to tarry, meaning to stay and rest or wait a little before going on

examples

• Tarry with me for a while. tree →
• The knight did not tarry at the gate. tree →
• Why did you tarry so long? tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
• Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
• And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'
• But David tarried at Jerusalem.
• And the king went forth, and all the people after him; and they tarried in Beth-merhak.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tarry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.