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"I've never tried to make my figures come out this way," he explained last week, pointing to a tall figure reminiscent of a grotesquely tallowed candle.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But in running in for the town, you kept the lead going, out of question, and must have tallowed as usual."

From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by Cooper, James Fenimore

No vessel would go far unless its under-water parts were either sheathed, tarred, or tallowed; for sea-worms burrow alarmingly, and 'whiskers' grow like the obnoxious weeds they are.

From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by Wood, William Charles Henry

When a whaling ship is beset in the ice of Davis Straits, there is little work for her second engineer, once the engines have been nicely tallowed down.

From The Literary World Seventh Reader by Metcalf, John Calvin

In the Elizabethan ship they superintended the stowage of the ballast, and were in charge below, over the ballast shifters, when the ships were laid on their sides to be scraped and tallowed.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John