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# tallow

«tallow» in Mova's school dictionary: **hard animal fat, used to make candles and soap** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Tallow is hard animal fat, used to make candles and soap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallow/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales the fat that candles are made from, often found in a storeroom

### examples

- The candle was made of tallow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallow/#x1)
- Mouldy bread, tallow candle, and sausage were in the storeroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallow/#x2)
- Don't you know any story about bacon and tallow? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallow/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tallow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tallow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.