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tallowers

tallowers is the plural of tallower.

Meaning of tallower

Noun

tallower (plural tallowers)

  1. An animal which produces tallow.
    • The South Down sheep are not great tallowers, compared with some other sorts; but what they loose^([sic]) in tallow, they make up in a disposition to fatten.1813, Arthur Young, General view of the agriculture of the county of Sussex, page 332
  2. A merchant who deals in tallow.
  3. Someone who tallows, who greases with tallow

Questions about tallowers

What is tallowers the plural of?
Tallowers is the plural of tallower.

Words near tallowers in the dictionary

  1. tallowate
  2. tallowberries
  3. tallowberry
  4. tallowed
  5. tallower
  6. tallowers
  7. tallowiness
  8. tallowing
  9. tallowish
  10. tallowless
  11. tallowlike

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