- an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic.
- coal-tar creosote.
- to treat with creosote.
- a colourless or pale yellow liquid mixture with a burning taste and penetrating odour distilled from wood tar, esp from beechwood, contains creosol and other phenols, and is used as an antiseptic
- a thick dark liquid mixture prepared from coal tar, containing phenols: used as a preservative for wood
- to treat (wood) with creosote
