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Definition of Sperm oil
1. Noun. An animal oil found in the blubber of the sperm whale.
Definition of Sperm oil
1. Noun. whale oil from a sperm whale ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Sperm oil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"The amount of "winter sperm oil" of 38" F. cold-tests is about 75 per cent of
the crude oil. When a 32° F. cold-test was the commercial standard, ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1850)
"sperm oil. Whale OH. Whalebone. 1st. 15th. 1st. 15th. lit 15th. ... The average
for the year, as compared with 1848, was as follows :— Sperm OIL While OU. ..."
3. History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the by Alexander Starbuck (1878)
"Henry C. Bunker, sailed in 1828 and returned in 1831, having been absent two
years and eight months, bringing a cargo of 3468 ban-els of sperm-oil, ..."
4. Lubrication and Lubricants: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of by Leonard Archbutt, Richard Mountford Deeley (1900)
"sperm oil. Arctic Sperm (Bottle-nose) Oil.—These oils, obtained from two different
kinds (genera) of whale belonging to the family ..."
5. Lubrication and Lubricants: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of by Leonard Archbutt, Richard Mountford Deeley (1900)
"True sperm or ' southern sperm ' oil is obtained from the head-cavities and blubber
... Both crude oils contain spermaceti—sperm oil much more than bottle- ..."
6. Lubrication and Lubricants: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of by Leonard Archbutt, Richard Mountford Deeley (1907)
"True sperm or ' Southern sperm' oil is obtained from the head-cavities and blubber
of the ... Both crude oils contain spermaceti—sperm oil much more than ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"During the first half of the last century the colony of New South Wales was busily
engaged in this trade, and in 1835 exported 2989 tons of sperm-oil. ..."
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