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Oiler   /ˈɔɪlər/   Listen
noun
Oiler  n.  
1.
One who deals in oils.
2.
One who, or that which, oils.
3.
An oil tanker.
4.
A ship which is powered by oil.
5.
An oilcan.





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"Oiler" Quotes from Famous Books



... hours before Thomas Jefferson had a first mortgage on every soul aboard the "Sleeping Sealer," from the cap'n to the oiler down in the engine-room. He was able, all right, but you couldn't have made an able seaman out of him in a hundred years. For all that, he did the work of three men. The first thing you heard when you woke up in the morning was his whistle, and the last thing you heard at night ...
— Thomas Jefferson Brown • James Oliver Curwood
... the captain, glancing at the result. "After this, Mr. Hurst [the chief engineer] will put you in the place of the oiler who was lost this morning. The fifty dollars reward is in the purser's hands, where I advise you to leave it till you really need it. You may ...
— Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various


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