[f. prec. sb.] trans. To impregnate with creosote, as a preservative.
1846. A. Suckling, Hist. Suffolk, II. 75. The timber being creasoted … to keep out the worm.
1881. Whitehead, Hops, 37. The practice of creosoting the butt ends preserves them from decay.
Hence Creosoted ppl. a., Creosoting vbl. sb.; Creosoter, one engaged in creosoting timber.
1862. Rep. Directors E. Ind. Railw. Comp., 16. Creosoted sleepers.
1863. Reader, 14 Feb. If the method of creosoting were introduced in India.
1889. Hull Daily News, 12 April, 2/7. The creditors of Walter Frank Waterfall, of Grimsby, late creosoter.
1892. Daily News, 24 Feb., 6/3. The line there is laid upon piles of creosoted American pitch-pine.
