Pine-tar Rag (Noun)
Meaning
Baseball equipment consisting of a rag soaked with pine tar; used on the handle of a baseball bat to give a batter a firm grip.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The coach yelled at the batter for applying too much pine-tar rag to the handle of his bat before stepping up to the plate.
- Every time I got to the ballpark I had to go out and find some extra pine-tar rags in my duffel bag before the game started.
- When the new baseball player arrived at the dugout he saw that his teammates all had pine-tar rags hanging from their bats.
- During spring training the baseball player's hands were always sticky because he loved reapplying the pine-tar rag constantly to the grip of his Louisville Slugger.
- As soon as he got his new baseball bat the young player grabbed some extra pine-tar rags to keep it from slipping out of his hands during practice.