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tallows

tallows is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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What is tallows the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tallows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tallow.

Words near tallows in the dictionary

  1. tallowmaker
  2. tallowmakers
  3. tallowmaking
  4. tallowman
  5. tallowmen
  6. tallows
  7. tallowwood
  8. Tallowwood Ridge
  9. tallowwoods
  10. tallowy
  11. talls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tallows (page history and authors); tallow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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