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单词 whale oil
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whale oiln.

Brit. /ˈweɪl ɔɪl/, U.S. /ˈ(h)weɪl ˌɔɪl/
Oil obtained from whale blubber.
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1435–6 in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 418 ii shippes of waloill, conteynyng xlviij.0 iii. v. oyll.
c1580 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) July 520 Whale oyles that come frome newfound Land.
1672 Act 25 Chas. II c. 7 §4 Noe English built Shipp..importing Whale oyle or Blubber or other Fish, Oyle.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 157 We have Oil of Camomile and Linseed..when Train or Whale-Oil is dear.
1896 W. T. Brannt Pract. Treat. Animal & Veg. Fats & Oils (ed. 2) II. 57 The pure whale oils, pale, brownish-yellow or brown.
attributive.1853 Zoologist 11 4044 Syringing the young tree well with whale-oil-soap.1885 Harper's Mag. Feb. 368/2 Flavilla lit the..whale-oil lamp.
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