tarpit

tarpit
/tahr"pit'/, n.
seepage of natural tar or asphalt, esp. an accumulation that has acted as a natural trap into which animals have fallen and sunk and had their bones preserved.
Also, tar pit.
[1830-40; TAR1 + PIT1]

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