oileries

Noun

oilery (countable and uncountable, plural oileries)

1. (uncountable) The business of producing oil from plants or animals.
   • The oilery is a growing industry and a very useful one from many standpoints.1908, Canada. British Columbia Fisheries Commission, Report and Recommendations with Addenda and Appendices, page 29
2. (countable) A factory or establishment that produces or sells such oil.
   • While the oilery is not permitted to catch salmon for conversion into oil and fertilizer, there is no law to prevent it receiving from the canneries fish which have been held so long that they are unfit for food and consequently cannot be canned.1905 September, “Georgia Fertilizer Tags”, in American Fertilizer, volume 23, number 3, page 16
3. (uncountable) Oil products such as cooking oil, heating oil, oil-based toiletries, and foods preserved in oil.
   • Here the right honourable gentleman read rapidly from the civil list, "Oilery, grocery, lemons, fruits, and oranges, milk and cream, butter, cheese, and eggs, bacon, butcher-meat, poultry, fish, and vegetable, stationer, china and brazier, cider, and brandy, beer, bread, and wine"— ll those were...1836, George Canning, Roger Therry, The Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning, page 225