oil tanker

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of oil tanker¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

The FSO Safer, a 45-year-old oil tanker, is floating aimlessly on the Red Sea that borders the shores of countries like Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Djibouti, and Yemen.

From Popular-Science

I’ve long had dreams of surfing the massive wakes produced by oil tankers as they run along the coast.

From Outside Online

They represent critical nodes that make navigation faster and easier, and allow container and cargo ships and their massive oil tanker sisters to avoid long journeys around inconveniently located continents.

From Time

A giant barge has made its way to the front of the wreckage near an enormous oil tanker that arrived over the weekend.

From The Daily Beast

We found a resting place under the semidarkness of an oil tanker.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

A great oil tanker full of Cocoanut-oil had burst into flame, trapping thirty men in its awful furnace.

From Project Gutenberg

The little ships stood out, silhouetted against that great flaming oil tanker.

From Project Gutenberg

Engdahl showed up with the oil tanker just about the time we got the wiring complete.

From Project Gutenberg