Synonyms for tallow

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tal-oh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæl oʊ

Définition of tallow

Origin : mid-14c., talwgh, from a form cognate with Middle Low German talg "tallow," Middle Dutch talch, from Proto-Germanic *talga-, meaning perhaps originally "firm, compact material" (cf. Gothic tulgus "firm, solid").

noun fat

Example sentences :

There was a tallow dip or two, and no other light save that of the fire.
Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

How glorious it would be just to eat of it, raw, tallow bacon!
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

This tallow is dearer than common tallow, but cheaper than wax.
Extract from : « Home Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle

And in 1634 he sent over for a large quantity of wicks and tallow.
Extract from : « Home Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle

They had been to Taganrog and loaded a cargo of tallow for London.
Extract from : « The Shellback's Progress » by Walter Runciman

This wax is made of equal parts of tallow, beeswax, and linseed oil.
Extract from : « Agriculture for Beginners » by Charles William Burkett

Only wish I had a couple of tallow staves instead of this wooden spoon.
Extract from : « The Golden Magnet » by George Manville Fenn

Gott it aboard and hove down one Side and paid it with tallow.
Extract from : « Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period » by Various

Tune the pipes to the tragedy of tallow, the bane of bulk, the calamity of corpulence.
Extract from : « The Four Million » by O. Henry

Its meat was perfectly white, and tasted like a tallow candle.
Extract from : « Tales of the Malayan Coast » by Rounsevelle Wildman

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