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Word entry · 6 letters

tallow

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"Rendered fat"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈtæləʊ/Part of speech nounSorted allotwStarts with TEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants

Word origin

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”)).

Used in a sentence

  • "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[.]"
  • to tallow sheep
  • […] 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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