lamp oil

noun

, South Midland and Southern U.S.

1. kerosene.

Example Sentences

Water was to fetch only a hundred yards, and lamp oil, etc., came twice a week in the cart from Porth Neigr.

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The people grew more and more restless and excited, food became dearer, and no lamp oil could be had.

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To make Castile soap, boil common soft soap in lamp oil three hours and a half.

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Had my lamp oil run out, I should have bought liquor and tried to burn it instead.

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I 'low that a little dosin' of lamp oil never hurt nobody--and it's cured a-many, of most any kind of disease.

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