tallow

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   "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[.]".

2. 2
   verb

   To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.

   To tallow sheep.

3. 3
   verb

   Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow.

   […] 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.

4. 4
   noun

   obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants

Common collocations

• beef tallow Noun + noun

From Middle English talow, talgh, from Old English *tealh, *tealg, (compare Old English tælg, telg (“dye”)), from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz (compare Dutch talg, German Talg), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to flow”) (compare Middle Irish delt (“dew”), Old Armenian տեղ (teł, “heavy rain”)).

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