different between tillow vs tallow

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l??

Etymology 1

From Middle English *tilwe, *telwe, from Old English telga, telge (“twig, branch, shoot”). More at tiller.

Noun

tillow (plural tillows)

1. Alternative form of tiller
2. (Britain dialectal) Branch; twig; shoot.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *tilwen, *telwien, *tel?en, from Old English telgian (“to put forth branches”).

Alternative forms

• telly

Verb

tillow (third-person singular simple present tillows, present participle tillowing, simple past and past participle tillowed)

1. Alternative form of tiller
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To spread; branch out; send forth shoots.

English

Etymology

From Middle English talwe, talugh, talu?, talgh, from Old English *tealh, *tealg, (compare Old English tælg, telg (“dye”)), from Proto-Germanic *talgaz (compare Dutch talg, German Talg), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“flow”) (compare Middle Irish delt (“dew”), Old Armenian ??? (te?, “heavy rain”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæl??/

  Rhymes: -æl??

Noun

tallow (countable and uncountable, plural tallows)

1. A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.
   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, chapter VIII, section ii:

     Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.

Translations

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. To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.

   to tallow sheep

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