Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Oil obtained from the blubber of a whale or other marine animal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Oil drawn or tried out from the blubber of a whale; especially, ordinary oil from the right whale, as distinguished from
sperm-oil .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
whale oil
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber; formerly used as an illuminant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English trane, from Middle Dutch, tear, drop, train oil; see dakru- in Indo-European roots.]
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