tallow

How To Use tallow In A Sentence

• Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
• When he had prepared twenty or more of those pieces of poisoned tallow, he put them in what he called a fox bed, of oat chaff, behind that old barn. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
• The horseshoes are first pulled off, which are worth about 4s., the hoofs fetch 8s., the tail 2s.; the tallow is not worth much, the hide is worth something; the shinbones are sold to be converted into cane-heads, knife-handles, &c. A New York Paper States
• After clothes and linens had been thoroughly rubbed and scrubbed using homemade soap made from beef tallow and lye (soap-making is another whole story), they were wrung out by hand and placed in a second tub to be rinsed.
• Standing all day on the wet clay floor under the dropping ceiling in the faint light cast by tallow candles was grim.
• The son of a tallow chandler, Collins was 14 when he arrived in Salisbury - a small town bounded by the river running alongside its High Street on its west side and Culver Street to the east.
• a Bristol gal; and her father being a bankrup in the tallow-chandlering way, left, in course, a pretty little sum of money. The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
• To form ( candle ) by repeatedly immersing a wick in melted wax or tallow.
• To light their homes, early Americans relied on tallow candles, floating tapers that burned assorted greases, and lamps that burned fuels such as lard and turpentine.
• One defintion of a knacker is "a person who purchases or hauls away livestock carcasses for processing into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc. Green Tomato Finale