Tallow meaning

tăl'ō
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.
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Any of various similar fats, such as those obtained from plants.
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To smear or cover with tallow.
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To fatten (animals) in order to obtain tallow.
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The nearly colorless and tasteless solid fat extracted from the natural fat of cattle, sheep, etc., used in making candles, soaps, lubricants, etc.
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To cover or smear with tallow.
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A hard animal fat obtained from suet etc.; used to make candles, soap and lubricants.
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To grease or smear with tallow.
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To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.

To tallow sheep.

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Origin of tallow

Middle English talgh, talow, from Old English taluh, talugh, from Proto-Germanic *talgō, *talgÄ… (compare Dutch talk, German Talg), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“flow") (compare Middle Irish delt (“dew"), Old Armenian Õ¿Õ¥Õ² (teÅ‚, “heavy rain")).

Sentence Examples

  • 1 Includes manufactories of glue, tallow, soap, perfumery, fertilizers, soda, &c.

  • The soap pan is charged with the tallow or other fat, and open steam is turned on.

  • A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom.

  • The production of wool was 300,000,000 lb, as in the grease; tallow, 493,000 cwt.; butter, 500,000 cwt.; cheese, 42,000 cwt.; and bacon and hams, 110,000 cwt.

  • Wheat, barley, eggs, butter, oilcake, hides, tallow, leather, tobacco, rugs, feathers and other items add considerably to the total value of the exports, which increased from 14 million sterling in 1851-1860 to 8-14 millions sterling in 1901-1905.

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