train oil
oil obtained from the blubber of whales or from seals, walruses, or other marine animals.
Origin of train oil
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How to use train oil in a sentence
After a sufficient time in the salt water, he took it out and rubbed it with chamois and train-oil for hours.
The sale of their wives is by no means uncommon, for a little train oil, or other paltry considerations.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II | Francis Augustus CoxNothing now remains but to sail homewards, where the fat is to be boiled, and melted down into train oil.
The Book of Curiosities | I. PlattsFor want of the requisite vessels only an inconsiderable quantity of the train-oil, which these animals contain, is collected.
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I | Karl Ritter von ScherzerThen they ate fish-meal with train-oil instead of butter, and for a second course toasted bread and blubber.
Fridtjof Nansen | Jacob B. Bull
British Dictionary definitions for train oil
oil obtained from the blubber of various marine animals, esp the whale
Origin of train oil
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