Since her voyage occurred during a period of financial depression, it is probable that her bottom was "white" (tallow and verdigris).
Tallow was probably used for lubrication, being introduced into the valve chest by pots on top of the casing, where radiated heat would melt the tallow.
From the valve chest the melted tallow was carried into the cylinder, and from there probably passed into the jet condenser.
Tallow Dick repeated his message and the captain scowled--mutiny!
Tallow Dick, a yellow slave, appeared at the corner of the store, and the old buck beckoned him to come and hitch his horse.
It was just while he was thus telling the tale for the twentieth time that two figures appeared over the brow of the hill and drew near--Hence Sturgill on horseback and Tallow Dick on foot.
It brought Tallow Dick's head out of the barn door and made him grin.
After drying out completely they are given a light coating of tallow and laid away till wanted for cutting up into straps, which is now done by machinery.
The old process of hand stuffing employs a mixture of tallow and cod oil called "dubbin.
After further wetting and tempering they are dressed with Irish moss and tallow on the flesh, and with gum tragacanth on the grain.
The proportions of tallow and oil are varied with the time of year and with the method of drying, for if the dubbin be too soft it will run off the leather, and if too hard will not penetrate it so well.
Hand stuffing is often still preferred, with tallow and cod oil.
Picking band butts are neutralized by using warm water and then borax solution, and are then sammed by machine and very heavily fat liquored with cod oil and tallow and hard soap, to which degras may also be added.
Drum stuffing follows, wool fat and stearin being staple greases, with varying amounts of degras and cod oil, and of tallow and cod oil.
Some manufacturers of japans do not dislike the use of mineral oil, but strongly object to cod oil, tallow or other stuffing greases as tending to cause the varnish to strip or peel.
Then," continued he, "with these and this piece of tallow stuck outside my hat, I will be through those bars in no time.
Rub wax, soap, or tallow on any part which must not be stuck by surplus glue which may exude from a joint, as in the case of a panel which may become stuck by the glue used in fastening the frame (see Doors and Panels).
If screws are to be used in places where they may rust, it is a good plan to warm them slightly and then dip them in melted tallow or lard.
Bayberry tallow is excellent to rub on the sides of drawers.
In place of the tallow a soft paste of good beeswax and castor oil is an excellent application, the two being heated in order to thoroughly mix them.
But if from defective oil lubrication or other cause the bearing begins to heat, the tallow will melt, and flowing through the oil hole afford the needed lubrication.
For the low pressure cylinder a cup with a single cock will answer, as the cock may be opened when the vacuum is at that end of the cylinder, and the air will force the oil or tallow in.
Tallow is sometimes forced into a boiler fed with salt water to stop priming, by means of a syringe that is screwed into a tallow cock provided upon the boiler below the water level.
In addition to this, the saws hardened in oil and tallow show a very fine grain if fractured, and are tough.
Saws are hardened in compositions of animal oil, such as whale-oil, with which resin, pitch, and tallow are sometimes mixed.
So long as the bearing remains cool, the oil will feed and the tallow remain.
In some cases there is provided an oil dish around the oil hole, and this dish is filled withtallow that will not melt under the normal temperature at which the brass is supposed to operate.
The oil and tallow are supposed to enter the pores of the leather and supply the place of the evaporated water.
To avoid heating, it is a good plan to press some tallow into the bottom or in one corner of the oil cup, and then pour in the oil used for ordinary lubrication.
It is well, however, when making the joint, to put a little oil or pure tallow on it, and it is from this that it is called in England a grease joint, while in the United States it is termed the ground joint.
Tallow cups for high pressure cylinders must have two cocks, so that after the cup is filled the top cock may be closed and the bottom one then opened.
Tallow gives body to the liquid and causes it to extract the heat quickly from the steel (and the hardening is solely due to the rapid extraction of the heat).
A little tallow rubbed in with the hand, as the very last finishing touch, will be found of benefit.
Mix up this with the glue by thorough stirring and boiling together, turn it all out into a bucket (unless you are boiling it in one), and add half a tallow candle.
Next day Tom stole a pewter spoon and a brass candlestick in the house, for to make some pens for Jim out of, and six tallow candles; and I hung around the nigger cabins and laid for a chance, and stole three tin plates.
Though eight o'clock, it was still dark outside, and the cabin was lighted by a tallow candle thrust into an empty whisky bottle.
Tallow from innumerable candles had dripped down the long neck of the bottle and hardened into a miniature glacier.
Twenty leading half-breeds then petitioned the Company to be allowed to export their tallow and to be given a reasonable freight charge.
Don't you know any story about bacon, or tallowin the storeroom.
I heard the rats say one night," said the kitchen-cat, "that the greatest pleasure in the world was to eat tallow candles and to feast on rancid bacon.
Ah, if we only lived in the days of tallow candles!
I have sun and moon for my outward use, and for inward use too; and into the bargain I have stearine candles, train oil and lamps, and tallow candles.
But under the chandelier was a vacant space like a little crater: not a single soul sat there, for the tallow was dropping, drip, drip!
One can run about on tallow candles there, and go in thin and come out fat.
One man feels at home in the atmosphere of the tavern, among the flaring tallow candles, and when the smell of spirits mingles with the fumes of bad tobacco.
They all make candles of the tallow of their beasts, both moulded and dipped; and they all make oil of the livers of fish.
In about fifteen minutes pour off the acid, and examine whether it has sufficiently corroded any part of the work; if so, lay a mixture of warm tallow and linseed oil over such parts with a hair pencil, and again pour on the acid.
This tallowanswers a better purpose, after it has become brown by use, than it does at first.
Black Mammy' wrapped her feet up in rags and greased them with hot tallow or mutton suet and told her not to cry no more, be a good girl and mind master and mistress.
The tall wheels and cylinders, with their straps and bolts, looked like weird creatures of the night in the dim light of my tallow candle.
On the table burned a tallow candle, which hardly lit up the faces of seven people who were grouped round it, one of them being the red-nosed man who was reading the Police News.
Fort Vermilion, we resumed our journey, with six or seven pounds of tallow for our whole stock of food.
This slender supply brought us through to the evening of the third day, when we had for supper two ounces of tallow each.
When his cousin and new-found friend had gone Dirk sat for a while, till the guttering tallow lights overhead burned to the sockets indeed.
Above the table hung a six-armed brass chandelier, and in each of its sockets guttered a tallow candle furnishing light to the company beneath, although outside of its bright ring there was shadow more or less dense.
The lowlands east of the Andes are admirably adapted for grazing, and such cattle products as hides, horns, and tallow are articles of export.
The hides and tallow are shipped to the United States.
I had not sailed far, however, when I came abreast of more tallow in a small cove, where I anchored, and boated off as before.
The income from the show and the proceeds of the tallow I had gathered in the Strait of Magellan, the last of which I had disposed of to a German soap-boiler at Samoa, put me in ample funds.
It rained and snowed hard all that day, and it was no light work carrying tallow in my arms over the boulders on the beach.
The bulk of the goods was tallow in casks and in lumps from which the casks had broken away; and embedded in the seaweed was a barrel of wine, which I also towed alongside.
I stowed the tallow from the deck to the hold, arranged my cabin in better order, and took in a good supply of wood and water.
These chief industries we will deal with at some length later, enumerating first of all some of the side products of lesser importance, such as the manufacture of tallow and of hams, and that of tanning.
The oldest one hobbled away, and returned with a smalltallow candle, which she lit and held in her hand, to show us how comfortable they were, after all; plenty of room for three piles of straw on the rough log floor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tallow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ester; fat; grease; lard; oil; tallow
