has oiled

• present perfect

  present perfect

  Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.

  of oil (3rd person singular).
  oil

  noun

  any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.

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has oiled

Perhaps jealous Venus has oiled    Your hair with some opiate drug, Not choosing her charms should be foiled    By Lady Elizabeth Mugg.

From Rejected Addresses by James Smith

May be so: But love has oiled your tongue to run so glib,— Curse on your eloquence!

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott

He has oiled the needle-gun and done his cooking; a stone is under his head and his mantle is about him.

From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes

But the door answered; 'I won't, for she has oiled my hinges, so that they move quite easily, whereas you left them all rough and rusty.'

From The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

But the door answered: 'I won't, for she has oiled my hinges, so that they move quite easily, whereas you left them all rough and rusty.'

From The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

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