tallower

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English

Etymology

From tallow +‎ -er.

Noun

tallower (plural tallowers)

  1. An animal which produces tallow.
    • 1813, Arthur Young, General view of the agriculture of the county of Sussex, page 332:
      The South Down sheep are not great tallowers, compared with some other sorts; but what they loose in tallow, they make up in a disposition to fatten.
  2. A merchant who deals in tallow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tallower”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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