Hallow vs Tallow - What's the difference?
hallow | tallow |
(archaic, or, dialectal) A saint; a holy person; an apostle.
A shout, cry; a hulloo.
* 1777 , Robin Hood's Chase , reprinted in
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a hard animal fat obtained from suet etc.; used to make candles, soap and lubricants
* 1929 , , chapter VIII, section ii:
To grease or smear with tallow.
To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
As nouns the difference between hallow and tallow
is that hallow is a saint; a holy person; an apostle while tallow is a hard animal fat obtained from suet etc.; used to make candles, soap and lubricants.As verbs the difference between hallow and tallow
is that hallow is to make holy, to sanctify while tallow is to grease or smear with tallow.As an adjective hallow
is an alternative spelling of lang=en.hallow
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia hallow) From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- All Hallows''' Eve'' (or Halloween), the night before ''All '''Hallows Day (now more commonly known as "All Saints Day").
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l).Etymology 3
From (etyl) halowen, from , probably conflated with (etyl) halloer.Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- Then away they went from merry Sherwood / And into Yorkshire he did hie / And the King did follow, with a hoop and a hallow / But could not come him nigh.
- I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel's bows.
Etymology 4
tallow
English
(wikipedia tallow)Noun
(-)- Nor were the wool prospects much better. The .
Verb
(en verb)- to tallow sheep