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

oil sand, oil sands, oil shale, oil slick, oil spill, oil tanker, oil varnish, oil well, oil-cooled, oil-harden, 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?
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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