tallow

About 0.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.
2. verb To grease or smear with tallow.
3. verb To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.

   to tallow sheep

4. verb Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow.

Similar words

grease blubber chandler fat talk chandlers sevum stuffing lard suet

Often followed by

and candles candle or is to in dip was

Word family

tallowed tallowing tallows tallowy