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Tallow

//ˈtæloʊ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants. countable, uncountable

    ""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
    obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To grease or smear with tallow.
  2. 2
    To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten. transitive

    "to tallow sheep"

  3. 3
    Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow. intransitive

    "[…] 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”)).

Etymology 2

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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