Oiler

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  • noun. One that oils engines or machinery.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An oil tanker.
  • noun. A ship that burns oil as fuel.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An oilskin garment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An oil-merchant; an oilman.
  • noun. An oil-well.
  • noun. An appliance for distributing oil to the bearings or rubbing surfaces of machines.
  • noun. An oil-can, generally having a long spout curved at the outer extremity, used by an attendant for supplying oil to parts of engines or other machines.
  • noun. An operative employed to attend to the oiling of engines or other machinery.
  • noun. A vessel engaged in the oil-trade, or in the transportation of oils.
  • noun. An oilskin coat.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who deals in oils.
  • noun. One who, or that which, oils.
  • noun. An oil tanker.
  • noun. A ship which is powered by oil.
  • noun. An oilcan.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An oil tanker
  • noun. An oil well
  • noun. A junior role in the engine room of a ship, senior only to a wiper, consisting mainly of keeping machinery lubricated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk
  • noun. a well that yields or has yielded oil
  • noun. a worker who oils engines or machinery
  • Word Usage
    "Two guided missile cruisers, the USS Leyte Gulf and the USS Vella Gulf, a destroyer, the USS Peterson, all set to return to Norfolk and then there's an oiler, which is support ship as well for the battle group, the USS Detroit, which will return to the Earle Naval Weapons Stations in New Jersey."
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    worker  
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    Euler  boiler  broiler  spoiler  
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    oilcan  
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