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oil bath

oil bath is the alternative form of oilbath.

Meaning of oilbath

Noun

oilbath (plural oilbaths)

  1. A bath of oil.
    • But one thing the place did possess, and that in abundance, was its smell: an all-pervading odour of hot oil reminiscent of an engine room, which was produced by the heated oilbaths in which we sterilised our syringes.1970, Ronald Hare, The Birth of Penicillin and the Disarming of Microbes; quoted in 1979, Steven Lehrer, Explorers of the Body

Forms of oil bath

pluraloil baths

Questions about oil bath

What is oil bath the alternative form of?
Oil bath is the alternative form of oilbath.

Words near oil bath in the dictionary

  1. oil and water
  2. oil and water don't mix
  3. oil baron
  4. oil barons
  5. oil barrel
  6. oil bath
  7. oil baths
  8. oil beetle
  9. oil beetles
  10. oil bug
  11. oil bugs

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