tallow oil

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   an animal oil obtained by pressing tallow; used as a lubricant

   Broaderanimal oil

Questions about tallow oil

What does tallow oil mean?

tallow oil means "an animal oil obtained by pressing tallow; used as a lubricant".

Is tallow oil a common word?

tallow oil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.