oil drum

noun

1. a metal drum used to contain or transport oil

Example Sentences

It depicts the Fife-born artist's best known work, The Singing Butler, which features a couple dancing on a storm-swept beach accompanied by their butler and maid, but with two figures in yellow hazmat suits disposing of an oil drum in the background.

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In May 2002, an explosion sent metal shards onto Jordan’s campus while workers were cutting an oil drum.

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Months earlier, in May 2002, Atlas workers were cutting an oil drum, sparking an explosion that sent metal shards onto Jordan’s campus.

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Wearing his red union baseball cap and tending the blaze inside an oil drum, Mr. Bohne, 56, looks like a scruffy Santa Claus.

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The remains were found in a burned oil drum that had been sunken in a reservoir in the park.

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