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countable and uncountable, plural tallows
A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants. quotations examples
"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[.]"
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 240
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.
1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, chapter VIII, section ii
third-person singular simple present tallows, present participle tallowing, simple past and past participle tallowed
To grease or smear with tallow. examples
To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten. examples