Crossword-Solution: TALLOWED 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

When I got home I undressed and rubbed myself down with whisky, put my feet in hot water and a mustard-plaster on my chest, had a basin of gruel and a glass of hot brandy-and-water, tallowed my nose, and went to bed.

Master Eau-douce always makes fast to the shore.” “But in running in for the town, you kept the lead going, out of question, and must have tallowed as usual.” “Tallow!--and town, too! Bless your heart, Master Cap! there is no more town than there is on your chin, and not half as much tallow!” The Sergeant smiled grimly, but his brother-in-law did not detect this proof of humor.

Then he made up a neat bundle of the various odds and ends that he had gathered from the engines—little things like nuts and valve-spindles, all carefully tallowed—and retired with them under the floor of the engine-room, where he sighed, being fat, as he passed from manhole to manhole of the double bottom, and in a fairly dry submarine compartment hid them.

They did not ask too much of what they met, but polished and tallowed and scraped it to a false brilliancy.

Our Captain discharged (20th March) this frigate of her lading; and because she was new, strong, and of a good mould, the next day (21st March) he tallowed her to make her a Man-of-war; disposing all our ordnance and provisions that were fit for such use, in her.