marrowfatn.
/ˈmarə(ʊ)fat/, U.S. /ˈmɛroʊˌfæt/ 1. North American. A substance like tallow prepared by boiling down bone marrow.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [noun] > derived from animals > other animal grease
wool-oil1545
foot seam1584
marrowfat1717
bone fat1791
lanolin1885
lard stearin1885
1717 J. Knight Jrnl. 16 Aug. in Founding of Churchill (1932) 164 These Indians gave me..2 pretty bigg bladders of Marrow fatt.
1791 in Publ. Champlain Soc. (1934) XXI. 528 They broke the Bones of the Buffalo & made marrowfatt.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xvi. 116 ‘Marrow-fat’ is collected by the Indians from the buffalo bones which they break to pieces, yielding a prodigious quantity of marrow, which is boiled out and put into buffalo bladders.
1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. viii. 79 Marrow-fat, an article in many respects superior to butter.
1888 Cent. Mag. 36 898/1 Then he slicked his hair with marrow-fat from a horn.
1947 Beaver (Winnipeg) Dec. 21 Clean Marrow fat rendered down like white butter.
2. In full marrowfat pea. Any of certain varieties of pea with large rich wrinkled seeds; the seed of such a pea. Cf. marrow pea n. at marrow n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant
rouncival1570
garden pea1573
field pease1597
vale-grey1615
rose pea1629
hotspur1663
seven-year pea1672
rathe-ripe1677
huff-codc1680
pigeon pea1683
hog-pease1686
shrub pea1691
field pea1707
pea1707
crown pea1726
maple rouncival1731
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
pig pea1731
sickle-pea1731
hog pea1732
maple pea1732
marrow pea1733
black eye?1740
egg-pea1744
magotty bay bean1789
Prussian1804
maple grey1805
partridge pea1812
Prussian blue1822
scimitar1834
marrow1855
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
mattar1908
vining pea1959
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea > other peas
garden pea1573
rathe-ripe1677
pigeon pea1683
sugar pea1707
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
maple pea1732
egg-pea1744
petits pois1820
pea1866
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
vining pea1959
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Pisum The Marrow-fat or Dutch Admiral Pea.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Pisum Observing to allow the Marrow-fats..at least three Feet between Row and Row.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Pease The marrowfat is the best tasted of all the large kinds of peas.
1804 J. Gardiner Amer. Gardener 43 Rouncivals,..marrowfats, and other large late peas are the kinds to sow this month.
1840 R. H. Barham Tragedy in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 284 The Duchess shed tears large as marrow-fat peas.
1904 F. Crissey Tattlings Retired Politician 404 The glare of a diamond stud about the size of a marrow-fat pea.
1969 S. G. Harrison et al. Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 42/1 Marrowfats, with usually large, wrinkled seeds, form the largest group [of garden peas] and the most important for quick-freezing and canning.
1998 Independent 9 May (Mag.) 40/2 Jaffrey suggests frozen as an alternative, but I would prefer marrow fat peas.
3. U.S. slang. A system of ballot-rigging (see quot. 1903). rare.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun] > secret voting > fraudulent manipulation of
marrowfat1903
ballot rigging1908
1903 A. B. Hart Actual Govt. 75 The ‘marrow-fat’ fraud consists in a voter's putting in more than one ballot, while the clerk puts down fictitious names to cover the extra ballots.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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