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oilbath

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A bath of oil.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1970, Ronald Hare, The Birth of Penicillin and the Disarming of Microbes; quoted in 1979, Steven Lehrer, Explorers of the Body But one thing the place did possess, and that in abundance, was its smell: an all-pervading odour of hot oil reminiscent of an engine room, which was produced by the heated oilbaths in which we sterilised our syringes.

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History

Etymology

From oil + bath.