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Tallower vs Wallower - What's the difference?

tallower | wallower |

As nouns the difference between tallower and wallower

is that tallower is an animal which produces tallow while wallower is agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.

tallower

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An animal which produces tallow.
  • * 1813 , Arthur Young, General view of the agriculture of the county of Sussex (page 332)
    • The South Down sheep are not great tallowers , compared with some other sorts; but what they loose in tallow, they make up in a disposition to fatten.
  • A merchant who deals in tallow.
    • (Webster 1913)

    wallower

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.
  • (dated, engineering) A lantern wheel; a trundle.
  • * 1847 , Edward Cresy, An Encyclopaedia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical
    • At each end of the water-wheel is a vertical shaft with wallowers
    English agent nouns