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oil tanker

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noun

a large ship specifically designed for transporting crude oil in bulk across the oceans.

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Nearby words

  1. oil sand,
  2. oil sands,
  3. oil shale,
  4. oil slick,
  5. oil spill,
  6. oil varnish,
  7. oil well,
  8. oil-cooled,
  9. oil-harden,
  10. oil-immersion objective

Origin of oil tanker

First recorded in 1915–20
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for oil tanker

  • If there had been, a fellow couldn't be advertising her to the crew of an oil-tanker at high-noon, could he?

    Wide Courses|James Brendan Connolly

  • Usually it is only the drunks who come over the side of an oil-tanker singing, but this was no drunk.

    Wide Courses|James Brendan Connolly