| 单词 | seneca oil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSeneca oil Seneca oil n. a name for crude petroleum (see quot. 1865): now historical. ΚΠ 1795 J. Scott U.S. Gazetteer at Allegany In this county is Oil creek: It flows from a spring much celebrated for a bitumen resembling Barbadoes tar, and is known by the name of Seneca Oil. 1826 Hildreth in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 10 5 The other [well] discharges..vast quantities of petroleum, or, as it is vulgarly called ‘Seneka oil’. 1833 Hildreth in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 24 64 This oil..acquired its name of Seneca oil,..from having been first found in the vicinity of Seneca Lake, N. York. 1865 G. W. Gesner A. Gesner's Pract. Treat. Coal (ed. 2) ii. 16 Under the name of ‘Seneca Oil’ which it derived from an Indian tribe, petroleum was formerly collected in Chautauque County, N.Y., and in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and sold for medicinal purposes. 1910 R. Kipling Rewards & Fairies 161 He took orders for that famous Seneca Oil which he had the secret of from Red Jacket's Indians. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. X. 619/1 In North America crude oil was undoubtedly used by the Indians, and Seneca oil skimmed from the surface of water near Lake Seneca..utilized for rheumatism, coughs, burns, sprains etc. < as lemmas |
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