oilery

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
   • In order to provide employment to rural artisans and craftsman, units of carpentary, black-smithery, pottery, weaving, dying, tanning, oilery and other arts and rafts, etc. may be established in the above — said Agro-industries Complex.1973, Women on the March - Volume 17, pages 1973-19
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
   • There's a winery, a joinery, a blacksmith, an oilery where you take your olives for the pressing, a post office, two tavernas, two multi-purpose shops, one kafeneío (local cafébar), an ice-cream parlour, a car hire office and a petrol station doubling as a DIY store.2021, Richard Pine, The Quality of Life: Essays on Cultural Politics, 1978-2018, page 240
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
   • One of the plaintiffs had for many years held, and he still retained, an appointment from Her Majesty's Board of Green Cloth, as purveyor of oilery (under which term pickles are included) to Her Majesty, and he and his firm claimed, by virtue of this appointment, to have the exclusive right to use...1867, English Reports Annotated, 1866-1900 - Volume 1, page 566