| 单词 | train oil | 
| 释义 | train oiln. Now chiefly historical.   Oil extracted from the carcasses of sea animals, esp. that obtained by boiling the blubber of the right whale. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > 			[noun]		 > animal oil > whale oil whale oil1435 train1465 train oil1465 meat-oil1501 1465    in  D. M. Owen Making of King's Lynn 		(1984)	 368  				12 barellis trane oyle. c1503    R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxx/2 		(table)	  				Trayne oyle the barell. a1556    R. Chancellor in  R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations 		(1598)	 I. 237  				They haue much oyle which wee call treine oyle. 1591    G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth iii. f. 8v  				An other..principall commoditie is their Trane oyle, drawen out of the seal fish. 1661    R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 229  				Of the fat [of the tunny] is made Traine-oile for Clothiers. 1712    Philos. Trans. 1710–12 		(Royal Soc.)	 27 446  				The Fat of a Whale,..out of which we boil the Train-Oyl. 1779    Farmer's Mag. Dec. 380  				Washing dogs with train oil, or anointing them with..hog's lard, have..been recommended. 1823    J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 151  				Soft Soap is made of train oil and a little tallow. 1865    F. Parkman Champlain ii, in  Pioneers of France in New World 210  				Seeking..the more modest gains of codfish and train-oil. 1897    F. Nansen in  Daily News 9 Feb. 8/4  				A fish gratin made of powdered fish and Indian meal and train oil. 1922    J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. 		(new ed.)	 vi. 171  				Oleic acid..is present as olein (glyceryl oleate) in the fatty oils especially e.g. olive, almond, and train oils. 1959    J. W. Godsell I was no Lady viii. 131  				Cleaning the polar bear skins entailed so much work, including the removal of masses of heavy, yellow train-oil. 2003    T. C. Smout Exploring Environmental Hist. vii. 122  				The inhabitants there burned other vegetation such as fern, juniper and crowberry, supplemented by cattle bones, fish moistened with train oil, dried animal dung and seaweed. Compounds  General attributive, as  train-oil lamp,  train-oil man, etc. ΚΠ 1704    W. King Remarks Tale of Tub 13  				The Brewer, the Soap-boiler, the Train-oil-man, were all affronted at it. 1833    T. Carlyle in  Fraser's Mag. Aug. 145/1  				A train-oil Prince Potemkin (or something like him, for accounts are dubious). 1842    R. Browning Pied Piper of Hamelin in  Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics vii  				A drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks. 1865    G. MacDonald Alec Forbes I. vii. 36  				Candles or train-oil lamps were burning in most..houses. 1909    D. Ellis Outl. Bacteriol. xvii. 227  				A fishy or train-oil flavour is an evil that butter-makers have to fight against. 1916    Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 182 511  				With train oil lamps and moulded tapers man might mitigate the evening's gloom. 2009    M. Weissenbacher Sources Power xxvi. 363  				Ten years later [sc. 1856] U.S. annual production of spermaceti had reached some five million gallons, and train oil production some eight million gallons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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