tallow
IPA: tˈæɫoʊ
noun
- A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.
verb
- To grease or smear with tallow.
- To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
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Examples of "tallow" in Sentences
- It consists of natural wax, oil and tallow.
- The street lamps were using tallow candles.
- The Recova was illuminated with 1,141 tallow candles.
- Clinique's soap contains tallow and lye as the bases.
- It is used as tallow in the manufacture of candles and soap.
- Besides trading in hides, Sanchez began manufacturing soap from the tallow.
- The unpleasant smell of tallow candles is due to the glycerine they contain.
- Candles, made from rendering the tallow of butchered cattle, provided light.
- The early candle was made from various forms of natural fat, tallow, and wax.
- Their only means of light in the pitch black mine was candles made of tallow.