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). < n.1684 |
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