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tallowed

tallowed is the simple past and past participle of tallow.

Meaning of tallow

Verb

tallow (third-person singular simple present tallows, present participle tallowing, simple past and past participle tallowed)

  1. To grease or smear with tallow.
  2. (transitive) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
    • to tallow sheep
  3. (intransitive) Of animals: to develop quantities of tallow.
    • […] their beef is finer than that of the old short-horned breed, and they fatten much earlier and quicker, conveying still a vast depth of natural flesh, and tallowing within in the first degree.1824, R. W. Dickson, A Complete System of Improved Live Stock and Cattle, page 53

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Questions about tallowed

What is tallowed the simple past and past participle of?
Tallowed is the simple past and past participle of tallow.

Words near tallowed in the dictionary

  1. tallow-wood
  2. tallow-woods
  3. tallowate
  4. tallowberries
  5. tallowberry
  6. tallowed
  7. tallower
  8. tallowers
  9. tallowiness
  10. tallowing
  11. tallowish

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