tallow

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Etymology

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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Noun

tallow (countable and uncountable, plural tallows)

  1. A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 240:
      "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"
    • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, chapter VIII, section ii:
      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.
    • 2005, Carmen Ferreiro, Mad Cow Disease, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:
      Rendering is done by boiling the animal carcasses to separate the fat from the meat. At high temperatures, the fat floats as a creamy white substance called tallow, while the heavier protein sinks to the bottom, producing greaves, which can be fed to animals. Tallow is used to make candle wax or is mixed with ash and heated again to form soap.

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Verb

tallow (third-person singular simple present tallows, present participle tallowing, simple past and past participle tallowed)

  1. To grease or smear with tallow.
  2. (transitive) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
    to tallow sheep
  3. (intransitive) Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow.
    • 1824, R. W. Dickson, A Complete System of Improved Live Stock and Cattle, page 53:
      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.

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