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Pronunciation: [tˈalə͡ʊ] (IPA)

Tallow is a fatty substance that is extracted from animal tissues and is used in making candles, soaps and other products. There are several synonyms for the word tallow that are used to describe this substance. Some of these synonyms include animal fat, suet, grease, lard, and shortening. Tallow is typically made from the fat of cattle or sheep, although it can also be derived from other animals. It is often used as a cheaper alternative to more expensive fats and oils in various industrial applications. Despite its low cost, tallow has proven to be a versatile ingredient that has been used for centuries and continues to be widely used today.
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    • Noun, singular or mass
      fat.

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Usage examples for Tallow

I said as much, and then he turned fiercely on me, and remarked, 'I never questioned you, sir, about your hides and tallow and ten-penny nails, for they were your affairs; please, then, to pay the same deference to me and mine.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
At every rest we cut off slices of caribou tallow.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The bull dressed about three hundred pounds of meat and one hundred pounds of tallow.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Tallow

  • To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
    Harry Houdini
  • Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
    George Eliot
  • Franklin is a good type of our American manhood. Although not the wealthiest or the most powerful, he is undoubtedly, in the versatility of his genius and achievements, the greatest of our self-made men. The simple yet graphic story in the Autobiography of his steady rise from humble boyhood in a tallow-chandler shop, by industry, economy, and perseverance in self-improvement, to eminence, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable histories of our self-made men. It is in itself a wonderful illustration of the results possible to be attained in a land of unequaled opportunity by following Franklin's maxims.
    Benjamin Franklin
  • Had he pushed my thighs apart right then and there, his sunned skin dark against the tallow pallor of my own nocturnal flesh, and plunged two of his thick fingers thick within me, I would have felt it apt, so natural.
    Antonella Gambotto-Burke
  • It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.
    George Eliot

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