suet

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Stuff it with beef-suet, and sweet herbs chopped, nutmeg, salt, and boil it in fair water and salt.

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  1. noun The hard fatty tissues around the kidneys of cattle and sheep, used in cooking and for making tallow.

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  • She put through the call whilst Miss Sophy poured out reminiscences, and almost at once, before she was expecting it, there was a voice on the line— what Laura would mentally call a suet-pudding voice. —  The Chinese Shawl - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 05
  • Pat Martin makes her own suet, a fat-rich compound, by packing the mixture into old tuna cans, then placing them in suet holders, available at most garden centers. —  Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines
  • But, you can make your own suet cakes by getting suet from a butcher and adding some peanut butter and wild birdseed mix (do this when the suet is warm and workable). —  Custom Search
  • 'Six bells and'--suet pudding brings me messages from the North Pole. —  The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play
  • It freezes upon the lips like suet, and clings around the teeth of a person eating it, which is not the case with that of other species of deer. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman *suet, accusative of sue, tallow, variant of Old French sieu, from Latin sēbum.

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  1. Early modern English also sewet; from Middle English suet, swete, from Old French seu, suis, suif, French suif = Provencal sett, sef = Spanish Portuguese sebo = Italian sevo, from Latin sebum, sevum, tallow, suet, grease; prob. akin to sapo, soap: see sebaceous, soap.
 

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