Definition of "Tartary"

Tartary

proper noun
1. (archaic) The Eurasian Steppe.
2. Obsolete form of Tartarus.
  Quotations
  An huge great Dragon horrible in ſight,Bred in the loathly lakes of Tartary
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 102