Library / English Dictionary

TALLOW

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("tallow" is a kind of...):

animal oil (any oil obtained from animal substances)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tallow"):

beef tallow (tallow obtained from a bovine animal)

dubbin (tallow mixed with oil; used to make leather soft and waterproof)

mutton tallow (tallow from the body of a mature sheep)

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 Context examples: 

Grey Beaver was offering him one piece of the tallow!

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He saw the blaze of the fire, Kloo-kooch cooking, and Grey Beaver squatting on his hams and mumbling a chunk of raw tallow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)