Tallow

/ˈtæloʊ/

Synonyms for "tallow" (32 found)

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Closest matches (7)

Noun(4 words)
animal fatbeef fatcoatcooking fat
animal oilceratedrying oil

Strong matches (9)

Noun(3 words)
edible fatfrying fatgrease
essential oilesterfatfatty oilfixed oilgrease

Related words (16)

hydrogenated fatlardlipidmineral oiloiloleumpolyunsaturated fatsebumunsaturated fatvegetable oilvolatile oil
Noun(5 words)
lubricatemutton fatrenderrendered fatrenderings

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

9 entries
animal fatanimal oilcandle makingcoatingcookingedible fatfatfat processinggreasing

More specific

7 entries
beef tallowcoatingextract fatgreasingmutton tallowoil applicationrender fat

Collocations

10 entries
animal fatbeef tallowmutton tallowrendered fattallow candletallow candlestallow fattallow greasetallow lamptallow soap

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

5 entries

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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

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