Tare
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Tare. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the common name of different One form of target alternately folds and It simulates an enemy addisappearing tarreeving through pulleys enable the operator in safety cellar to flash a target into view at any desired time. For artillery firing there are frames mounted parallel to the line of fire, and which can be thrown into view by merely turning them so that they will show at right angles to the line of fire. To catch aim quickly, and fire rapidly and with accuracy is the object striven for in this system of target practice. The proficiency of American gunners in the naval engagements of 1898 attracted much attention. It has been tributed, very correctly, to taken in target month, every Naru ship is brought into action. Polish nobles, Catherine II. (q. v.). was supplanted by Aramais. Ruth, that this Aramaic version was honored or a foreign port, is compelled to go to with being called after it. This Targum sea for target practice. A float containseems to have been originally produced ing a canvas target is turned adrift on among the scholars of R. Akiba between the sea while the vessel manœuvres A. D. 150 and 200 in Palestine, and sent around it for position exactly as if she to Babylonia, where it was more needed; were entering an engagement. Most of wherefore it is called Babli. Here it was the floating navy targets average about probably edited about 300, and afterward 15 feet in height. The ranges for target voweled in the Babylonian method. Subpractice vary with the size of gun used sequently voweled in the Palestinian from 1,000 to 5,000 yards. The auxiliary method, it spread from Palestine over cruiser "Gloucester," firing at a 6-foot the world. It is an excellent translation triangular target with her small rapidfor the people, and adheres more closely fire guns, literally peppered the canvas to the Masoretic text than any other anat a range of 2,000 yards. During the cient translation. It is useful for the regular gun practice every rifle on the exegete, the linguist, and the antiquary. Two other Targums on the Pentateuch have hitherto been known as Targum
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
in commerce a deduction made from the gross weight of goods as an allowance for the weight of the bag, box, cask, or other package. Farmers marketing wheat in sacks are accustomed to allowing a pound of tare for each sack. In the old arithmetics tare is associated with tret. Tret, now entirely discontinued, was an allowance of four pounds to the hundred to customers who were obliged to transport their wares to great distances. Tret was allowed, no doubt, on the plea that goods would suffer loss in weight or bulk through transportation.