tallowed, a.
(ˈtæləʊd)
Forms: see tallow n.
[f. tallow n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Smeared or anointed with tallow, greased: said esp. of a ship's bottom.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 486/2 Talwyd, cepatus. 1513 Douglas æneis ix. ii. 97 The tallownit burdis kest a pyky low [= the tallowed boards emitted a pitchy flame]. a 1547 Surrey æneid iv. (1557) F j b, Now fleetes the talowed kele. 1716 Lond. Gaz. No. 5412/2 A clean-tallowed French Snow. 1804 Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VI. 283 She would require a clean tallowed bottom every six weeks. |
† 2. Of cattle, etc.: (Well) furnished with fat or tallow; in grease. Obs.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §57 And se the oxe haue a greate codde,..for than it shulde seme, that they shuld be wel talowed. 1613 Markham Eng. Husbandman ii. ii. vii. (1635) 81 A..signe that the beast is very well tallowed within. |