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Tallow vs Lard - What's the difference?

tallow | lard |

As nouns the difference between tallow and lard

is that tallow is a hard animal fat obtained from suet etc.; used to make candles, soap and lubricants while lard is fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

As verbs the difference between tallow and lard

is that tallow is to grease or smear with tallow while lard is to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.

As a proper noun Lard is

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tallow

English

(wikipedia tallow)

Noun

(-)
  • a hard animal fat obtained from suet etc.; used to make candles, soap and lubricants
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grease or smear with tallow.
  • To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
    • to tallow sheep

    lard

    English

    (wikipedia lard)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
  • (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.

    • Verb

    (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.