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oilbath

oilbath noun: a bath of oil.

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
    • The next day, the sons take oilbaths.2001, Kumar Suresh Singh, People of India (volume 40, part 2, page 696)

Forms of oilbath

pluraloilbaths
alternative formoil bath

Origin of oilbath

From oil + bath.

Questions about oilbath

What does oilbath mean?
Oilbath means a bath of oil.
What part of speech is oilbath?
Oilbath is a noun.
What is the plural of oilbath?
The plural of oilbath is oilbaths.

Words near oilbath in the dictionary

  1. oil-patches
  2. oil-rich
  3. oil-seed camellia
  4. oil-seed camellias
  5. oilable
  6. oilbath
  7. oilbaths
  8. oilbean
  9. oilbeans
  10. oilberg
  11. oilbergs

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