suet

«suet» in Mova's school dictionary: hard white fat from around the kidneys of cows and sheep… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (suet — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Suet is hard white fat from around the kidneys of cows and sheep, used in cooking. tree →

2) Vegetable suet is a similar fat made from plants. tree →

sense in the lessons

In British and Irish cooking suet makes dumplings, Christmas pudding, mince pies and steamed puddings. Bird lovers put suet balls out in winter to feed birds. In The Wind in the Willows and old stories, suet puddings are hearty country food.

examples

• Mum adds suet to the dumplings for the stew. tree →
• We hung a suet ball in the garden for the birds. tree →
• Christmas pudding is made with suet and dried fruit. tree →
• Vegetarians use vegetable suet. tree →
• The old cook made a big suet pudding. tree →
• Blue tits love pecking at suet in winter. tree →

note

Uncountable: «some suet», not «a suet» (but «a suet pudding», «suet balls»). Pronounced SOO-it.

In the corpora

• And when the ram was cut into its pieces, Moses made the head, and the pieces, and the suet smoke.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «suet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.