oilery

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The business of producing oil from plants or animals. uncountable
    — The oilery is a growing industry and a very useful one from many standpoints.
  2. A factory or establishment that produces or sells such oil. countable
    — 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.
  3. Oil products such as cooking oil, heating oil, oil-based toiletries, and foods preserved in oil. uncountable
    — 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 detailed in that account, and must form part of the household charges.

词形变化

oileries plural

词源

Compare French huilerie.
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