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"word": "mountain tallow"
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"word": "tallow-faced"
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"word": "tallow gourd"
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"word": "tallow tree"
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"word": "tallow wood"
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"word": "tallow-wood"
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"ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 240",
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{
"ref": "1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, chapter VIII, section ii",
"text": "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.",
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"sense": "hard animal fat obtained",
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"word": "sēbum"
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"lang": "Lushootseed",
"sense": "hard animal fat obtained",
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"note": "from mutton",
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"sense": "hard animal fat obtained",
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"sense": "hard animal fat obtained",
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"sense": "hard animal fat obtained",
"tags": [
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"text": "to tallow sheep"
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tallow.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tallow.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tallow.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tallow.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-tallow.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "loi",
"sense": "to grease or smear with tallow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лои"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "to grease or smear with tallow",
"word": "talowen"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to grease or smear with tallow",
"word": "ensebar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ugojavam",
"sense": "to fatten",
"word": "угоявам"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "lojosa",
"sense": "to fatten",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "лојоса"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fatten",
"word": "engordar"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"tallow"
],
"word": "tallow"
}
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