Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Hard fat obtained from parts of the bodies of cattle, sheep, or horses, and used in foodstuffs or to make candles, leather dressing, soap, and lubricants.
- noun Any of various similar fats, such as those obtained from plants.
- transitive verb To smear or cover with tallow.
- transitive verb To fatten (animals) in order to obtain tallow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To grease or smear with tallow.
- To fatten; cause to have a large quantity of tallow: as, to
tallow sheep. - noun The harder and less fusible fats melted and separated from the fibrous or membranous matter which is naturally mixed with them.
- Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling tallow: as, a tallow cake; a tallow dip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To grease or smear with tallow.
- transitive verb To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
- noun The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
- noun The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.
- noun a candle made of tallow.
- noun [Obs.] a keech.
- noun one whose occupation is to make, or to sell, tallow candles.
- noun the trade of a tallow chandler; also, the place where his business is carried on.
- noun (Bot.) a tree (
Stillingia sebifera ) growing in China, the seeds of which are covered with a substance which resembles tallow and is applied to the same purposes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a hard
animal fat obtained fromsuet etc.; used to makecandles ,soap andlubricants - verb To
grease orsmear with tallow. - verb To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to
fatten .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants
Etymologies
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Examples
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All the fat of the inwards, that which we call the tallow and suet, with the caul that encloses it and the kidneys in the midst of it, were to be taken away, and burnt upon the altar, as an offering made by fire, v. 3-5.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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His first foot-gear was moccasins, his first taffy the tallow from a moose.
CHAPTER 5 2010
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Rendered beef fat is called tallow, and pork fat lard.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Rendered beef fat is called tallow, and pork fat lard.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The horseshoes are first pulled off, which are worth about 4s., the hoofs fetch 8s., the tail 2s.; the tallow is not worth much, the hide is worth something; the shinbones are sold to be converted into cane-heads, knife-handles, &c.
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Candles are kept burning by means of a wick of cotton or rush, placed in the centre of the tallow, which is moulded into a cylindrical form.
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We bought several bags of salmon oil from the natives, which we used, so long as it lasted, as a substitute for reindeer tallow, which is all gone now.
Schwatka's Search 1869
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Three Kings, Mother Soren lit up for Holberg a three-king candle, that is, a tallow candle with three wicks, which she had herself prepared.
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In most places our graziers are now grown to be so cunning that if they do but see an ox or bullock, and come to the feeling of him, they will give a guess at his weight, and how many score or stone of flesh and tallow he beareth, how the butcher may live by the sale, and what he may have for the skin and tallow, which is a point of skill not commonly practised heretofore.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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In most places our graziers are now grown to be so cunning that if they do but see an ox or bullock, and come to the feeling of him, they will give a guess at his weight, and how many score or stone of flesh and tallow he beareth, how the butcher may live by the sale, and what he may have for the skin and tallow, which is a point of skill not commonly practised heretofore.
Of Cattle Kept for Profit. Chapter XII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1 1909
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