Lexicographical Neighbors of Oiltight
Literary usage of Oiltight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"There shall be a centreline oiltight bulkhead dividing the cross bunker into port
and ... "The oiltight bulkheads must be suitably stiffened with vertical ..."
2. Mexican Petroleum: Description of Properties of the Pan American Petroleum by W. J. Archer (1922)
"1 tank is an oiltight bulkhead, which is pierced by the pipe line on the port side
... At the after end of this cross bunker tank is an oiltight bulkhead ..."
3. Shipbuilding Cyclopedia: A Reference Book Covering Definitions of by Bibber Webster, J. L. Bates, Stephen McKay Phillips, Alfred Henry Haag (1920)
"oiltight. Having the property of resisting the passage of oil. ... See BULKHEAD,
oiltight. Old Man. A piece of heavy bar iron bent to the form of a "Z." One ..."
4. Handbook of Ship Calculations, Construction and Operation: A Book of by Charles Haynes Hughes (1917)
"The best of workmanship is required in the building of oil carriers. The riveting
must be thoroughly oiltight, the spacing never ..."
5. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1917)
"It is desirable, of course, for another reason, to rivet the lugs to the oiltight
bulkheads rather than to the parts they are intended to connect, ..."
6. Fuel Oil in Industry by Stephen Osgood Andros (1920)
"Owing, however, to the spacing of rivets, they will probably not be oiltight,
but if steps are taken to deal with any leakage which may occur, ..."
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