| 单词 | oil bag | 
| 释义 | oil bagn. 1.  A bag containing oil or for containing oil; (Nautical) a bag used to drip oil on to the sea to calm the waves. Also (formerly): †a bag to contain a substance from which oil is to be expressed (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > 			[noun]		 > lubricating equipment grease-horna1642 oil bag1684 lubricator183. oilway1840 oiler1848 oil cup1850 grease-gun1917 1684    W. Davies in  tr.  Plutarch Lives III. 246  				Men were forc'd to live on Feverfew, growing round the Cittadel, and eat shooes and Oil-bags sodden [Gk. ληκύθους ἑϕθὰς]. 1875    E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1547/1  				Oil-bag, a sack of horsehair or cocoa-nut fiber, used in pressing oleine from the stearine in a press. 1886    Science 22 Jan. 77/2  				He made use of ‘the oil-bag’, into which he put about half a gallon, tying the neck tight, and towing it astern. 1896    R. Kipling Seven Seas 137  				Boom out the dripping oil-bags to skin the deep's unrest. 1948    R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 499/2  				Oil bags are usually made of No.2 canvas with roping of 15-thread hemp at joints. 1980    Amer. Heart Jrnl. 100 605  				This system employs..a small ultrasonic transducer contained within a small oil bag easily swallowed by adults. 1991    Sail 		(Electronic text)	 Oct.  				The containership's crew dragged an oil bag to calm the crests. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > 			[noun]		 > gland which secretes oil oil bag1713 oil gland1835 1713    W. Derham Physico-theol.  vii. i. 373  				In most..Birds there is only one Gland: in which are divers..Cells, ending in two or three larger Cells, lying under the Nipple of the Oyl-bag. 1792    J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 161  				The oil-bag of the musquash, wrapped in cotton, affords a perfume, grateful to those who are fond of musk. 1824    Lancet 27 Nov. 257/2  				Wens..are formed by a distension of the sebaceous follicles, or of the oil bags of the skin, as I call them. 1835    J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. III. 177  				The White Ibis..has these oil bags of great size. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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