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Definition of Oiler

1. Noun. A worker who oils engines or machinery.

2. Noun. A well that yields or has yielded oil.

3. Noun. A cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk.

Definition of Oiler

1. n. One who deals in oils.

Definition of Oiler

1. Noun. (nautical) An oil tanker ¹

2. Noun. An oil well ¹

3. Noun. A junior role in the engine room of a ship, senior only to a wiper, consisting mainly of keeping machinery lubricated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oiler

1. one that oils [n -S] - See also: oils

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oiler

oil vaccine oil well oil wells oilbird oilbirds oilcake oilcamp oilcamps oilcan oilcans

oilcloth oilcloths oilcup oilcups oiled oiler (current term) oileries oilers oilery oilfield

oilfields oilfish oilfishes oilhole oilholes oilier oilies oiliest oilily oiliness

Literary usage of Oiler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1917)
"Telescope oiler. — Fig. 530 shows the application of a telescopic oiler to a ... Ring oiler. — Small highspeed engines are often oiled by the oil-ring ..."

2. Handbook of Mining Details (1912)
"By means of a cock in the pipe leading to the oiler the supply of oil to the cable is controlled. After a rain the supply is so regulated that enough oil is ..."

3. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1910)
"Ring oiler. — Small high-speed engines are often oiled by the oil-ring system ... Centrifugal oiler. several loose rings which dip into a bath of oil in the ..."

4. Electric Car Maintenance: Selected from the Electric Railway Journal by Walter Jackson (1914)
"When the oiled waste in the armature-shaft oil cups is replaced by the Cincinnati capillary oiler illustrated the quantity of oil required is materially ..."

5. Steam Power Plant Engineering by George Frederick Gebhardt (1913)
"Pendulum oiler. — Fig. 528 illustrates the application of a ... oiler to the crank pin of a center-crank engine. Oil cups nd pendulum P are fastened to the ..."

6. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"Bing oiler on Crankshaft. The ring a, by dipping into o, pick* up a •mall quantity of oil ... Another type of ring oiler, much used for the lubrication of ..."

7. The Lancet (1842)
"... on which we proceed to oiler » few remarks. CITRATE OF IRON. The citrate of iron appears to have been first introduced to the notice of the medical ..."

8. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... 1782 ; and another appeared in ' Charaktere der Vornehmsten Dichter oiler Nationen, Leipsic, 1793. A French abridgment was published by Gilbert de ..."

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