Tallow

/ˈtæləʊ/ · noun

Meaning

A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants..

Definitions by Sense

1. A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.
2. To grease or smear with tallow.
3. (transitive) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
4. (intransitive) Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow.

Example Sentences

"I have got a very fine shirt, which I am going to use for my wedding shirt; but there are three tallow stains on it which I want washed out[.]"

Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.

Rendering is done by boiling the animal carcasses to separate the fat from the meat. At high temperatures, the fat floats as a creamy white substance called tallow, while the heavier protein sinks to the bottom, producing greaves, which can be fed to animals. Tallow is used to make candle wax or is mixed with ash and heated again to form soap.

to tallow sheep

[…] their beef is finer than that of the old short-horned breed, and they fatten much earlier and quicker, conveying still a vast depth of natural flesh, and tallowing within in the first degree.

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• tallows
• tallowing
• tallowed

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