a. Forms: see TALLOW sb. [f. TALLOW sb. and v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Smeared or anointed with tallow, greased: said esp. of a ship’s bottom.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 486/2. Talwyd, cepatus.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, IX. ii. 97. The tallownit burdis kest a pyky low [= the tallowed boards emitted a pitchy flame].

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a. 1547.  Surrey, Æneid, IV. (1557), F j b. Now fleetes the talowed kele.

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1716.  Lond. Gaz., No. 5412/2. A clean-tallowed French Snow.

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1804.  Nelson, in Nicolas, Disp. (1846), VI. 283. She would require a clean tallowed bottom every six weeks.

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  † 2.  Of cattle, etc.: (Well) furnished with fat or tallow; in grease. Obs.

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1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 57. And se the oxe haue a greate codde,… for than it shulde seme, that they shuld be wel talowed.

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1613.  Markham, Eng. Husbandman, II. II. vii. (1635), 81. A … signe that the beast is very well tallowed within.

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