Suet vs Lard - What's the difference?

As a noun suet

is the fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.

(wikipedia suet)

(-)

The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.

* 1996 : Laura Erickson, Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids

Many seed-eating birds also need animal fat and protein which they obtain from insects, animal carcasses, and suet .

* 1998 : Alan Pistorius, Everything You Need to Know About Birding and Backyard Bird Attraction

Some jays, chickadees, nuthatches, and titmice regularly feed at suet ; others seem never to indulge.

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(wikipedia lard)

(-)

Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

(obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

(en verb)

(cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking

to smear with fat or lard

* Somerville

In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.

to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing

To fatten; to enrich.

* Spenser

[The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.

* Shakespeare

Falstaff sweats to death, / And lards the lean earth as he walks along.

(obsolete) To grow fat.

To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

(Shakespeare)

* Dryden

Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.