单词 | tallowed |
释义 | tallowedadj. 1. Smeared or anointed with tallow, greased: said esp. of a ship's bottom. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [adjective] > smeared with tallow tallowedc1440 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 486/2 Talwyd, cepatus. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. ii. 97 The tallownit burdis kest a pyky low [= the tallowed boards emitted a pitchy flame]. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Ciiiv Now fleetes the talowed kele. 1716 London Gaz. No. 5412/2 A clean-tallowed French Snow. 1804 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 283 She would require a clean tallowed bottom every six weeks. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [adjective] > fattened tallowed?1523 wealthy1829 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry §57 And se the oxe haue a greate codde,..for than it shulde seme, that they shuld be wel talowed. 1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. vii. 91 A..signe that the beast is very well tallowed within. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < |
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