Definitions for tallows

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tallows tal·low

Spelling: [tal-oh]

IPA: /ˈtæl oʊ/

Tallows is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in tallows (allostw).

Definitions for tallows

noun

1. the fatty tissue or suet of animals.
2. the harder fat of sheep, cattle, etc., separated by melting from the fibrous and membranous matter naturally mixed with it, and used to make candles, soap, etc.
3. any of various similar fatty substances:

verb (used with object)

1. to smear with tallow.

Origin of tallows

1300-50; Middle English talow, talgh; cognate with German Talg

Examples for tallows

And in 1634 he sent over for a large quantity of wicks and tallow.

How glorious it would be just to eat of it, raw, tallow bacon!

Its meat was perfectly white, and tasted like a tallow candle.

This wax is made of equal parts of tallow, beeswax, and linseed oil.

This tallow is dearer than common tallow, but cheaper than wax.

There was a tallow dip or two, and no other light save that of the fire.

Gott it aboard and hove down one Side and paid it with tallow.

Tune the pipes to the tragedy of tallow, the bane of bulk, the calamity of corpulence.

Only wish I had a couple of tallow staves instead of this wooden spoon.

They had been to Taganrog and loaded a cargo of tallow for London.