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lamp oil

noun

Etymology

From Middle English lamp oyl, lampehoyle, lamp oyle, lampe oyl, lampe oyle, equivalent to lamp + oil. Compare West Frisian lampoalje (“lamp-oil”), Dutch lampolie (“lamp-oil”), German Lampenöl (“lamp-oil”), Danish lampeolie (“lamp-oil”), Swedish lampolja (“lamp-oil”), Icelandic lampaolía (“lamp-oil”).

  1. inherited from lamp oyl

Definitions

  1. Any clean-burning oil used as fuel in an oil lamp.

    • Near-synonym: (often synonymous) kerosene

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lamp oil. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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