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tallow candle
ˈtallow ˈcandle, n. A candle made of tallow.1452 in Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. Oct. (1903) 78 Item for j lb. & a hafe of tallowcandell..j d. ob. 1496–7 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 33 Item, iiij Candylstykes of laton with braunches for Talough candell. 1545 in Shropsh. Parish Documents (1903) 79 Fo...
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The Tallow Candle
"The Tallow Candle" () is a 700-word literary fairytale by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). See also
Hans Christian Andersen bibliography
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The full text of The Tallow candle in Danish
English translation of The Tallow
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Tallow
For those too poor even to avail themselves of homemade, molded tallow candles, the "tallow dip"—a reed that had been dipped in melted tallow or sometimes Such a candle was often simply called a "dip" or, because of its low cost, a "farthing dip" or "penny dip".
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tolly
tolly School slang. Now arch. or Hist. (ˈtɒlɪ) [app. f. tallow n.] A (tallow) candle.1890 Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang. II. 360/2 Tolly (public schools), a candle. 1905 Daily News 2 Aug. 4 Who does not recognise a living experience in Hugh working after prohibited hours for a scholarship, caught by ...
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Benjamin Franklin - Biography, Facts and Pictures - Famous Scientists
Benjamin Franklin's Early Life and Education. Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Josiah, was a tallow chandler, candle maker, and soap boiler who had moved to the American Colonies from England.
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Family tree of Benjamin FRANKLIN - Geneastar
Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin was a tallow chandler, a soap-maker and a candle-maker. Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith-farmer, and Jane White. Benjamin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a ...
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Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers
The organisation, which engaged not only in tallow candle making but also in the trade of oils, first received a Royal Charter in 1462. Traditionally tallow chandlers operated separately from wax chandlers: beeswax candles customarily being used in churches and noble houses, while tallow
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rush-candle
rush-candle [rush n.1] A candle of feeble power made by dipping the pith of a rush in tallow or other grease; a rushlight.1591 Nashe Pref. to Sidney's Astr. & Stella, Put out your rush candles, you Poets and Rymers. 1634 Milton Comus 338 A rush Candle from the wicker hole Of som clay habitation. 167...
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Candle
A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance Romans began making true dipped candles from tallow, beginning around 500 BC.
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Candelabra
A candelabra (plural candelabras) or candelabrum (plural candelabra or candelabrums) is a candle holder with multiple arms. The origin of the term suggests that on the top of the disk was a spike to carry a wax or tallow candle ( or ).
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William Cotesworth of Gateshead
As a young man, Cotesworth was apprenticed to a tallow candle maker. As a merchant, Cotesworth collected tallow in England and sold it internationally.
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William Stenson
early twentieth century for example, several of this family were proprietors of businesses in the neighbouring village of Whitwick, which included a tallow candle factory, mineral water factory and butcher's shop.
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Boiling down
Boiling down was the term used in Australia for the process of rendering the fat from animal carcasses to produce tallow. Henry O'Brien of Yass experimented with boiling down sheep in large cauldrons to extract the tallow (fat for soap and candle making).
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Price's Candles
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Technological
There was a potential market in England for a mid-priced candle that gave a brighter cleaner light than tallow but was not as Unless they could find a way of using the waste products a stearin candle would remain twice as expensive to produce as an ordinary tallow one.
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Sebacic acid
Sebaceus is Latin for tallow candle, sebum is Latin for tallow, and refers to its use in the manufacture of candles.
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