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7 total sentences available.
My name is Martin—James Briggs Martin—but almost everybody calls me Tallow, because once when I was younger I saw old Uncle Ike Bond rubbing tallow on his boots to shine them, and then hurried home and fixed mine up with the stub of a candle and went to school.
Source: tatoeba (10971134)
To prevent impurities, make sure to reduce the tallow multiple times.
Source: tatoeba (13648307)
"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[.]"
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 7 available sentences.
Closest matches include animal fat, animal oil, beef fat, cerate, coat.
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