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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tallow .
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Examples
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In the tight little harbor at Tadoussac, their bottoms were cleaned, tarred, and tallowed.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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In the tight little harbor at Tadoussac, their bottoms were cleaned, tarred, and tallowed.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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And being at anchor, presently we hove out all the maize a land, saving three butts which we kept for our store: and carrying all our provisions ashore, we brought both our frigates on the careen, and new tallowed them.
Sir Francis Drake Revived Philip [Editor] Nichols
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When the neck-vein is so firmly filled up as not to permit the points of the fingers inside of the shoulder-point, this indicates a well tallowed animal; as also does the filling up between the brisket and inside of the fore legs, as well as a full, projecting, well covered brisket in front.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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_Grete Herball_, "whereof is made a manner of lynke if it be tallowed."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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In this blessed state they washed their clothes in the brooks, hunted goats across the island, and burnt and tallowed their ship the
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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As soon as her cargo was out of her, he laid her on her side, and scraped and tallowed her "to make her a Man of war."
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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In the Elizabethan ship they superintended the stowage of the ballast, and were in charge below, over the ballast shifters, when the ships were laid on their sides to be scraped and tallowed.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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The hunters had killed and salted an incredible quantity of beef and pork, the ships were scraped and tallowed, and nothing more was to be done save to divide the victuals among all the buccaneers.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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Slowly they collected at the edge of the tallowed collar, trembled in their fullness for an instant, and fell, another beginning the process instantly.
Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917
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