Tallowing

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  • noun. The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow.
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  • noun. The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow.
  • noun. The property in animals of producing tallow.
  • Word Usage
    "While Mansvelt lay at Port Royal, scraping and tallowing his ships, getting beef salted and boucanned, and drumming up his men from the taverns, a Welshman, of the name of Henry Morgan, came sailing up to moorings with half-a-dozen captured merchantmen."
    verb-stem
    tallow