Tallow

Quick meaning: Tallow is a noun meaning A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To grease or smear with tallow.
2. (transitive) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
3. (intransitive) Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow.

Example Sentences

to tallow sheep

"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[.]"

[…] 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.

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.

Word Forms

• tallows
• tallowing
• tallowed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grease, blubber, chandler, fat, talk, chandlers.

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