Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as cotton-seed oil (which see, under cotton-seed).

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Examples

  • A good line of commercial cotton samples and of the best varieties of cotton seed were shown and some cotton-oil and cotton-mill machinery in connection therewith.

    Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

  • The thick, sweet, greasy air seemed to distil cotton-oil upon the faces of the workers.

    The Landloper Holman Day 1900

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