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US
/ˈɔɪɫɝ/
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NOUN
- a worker who oils engines or machinery
- a well that yields or has yielded oil
- a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk
How To Use oiler In A Sentence
- In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
- Investigations indicated the fire started from a temporary storehouse at the building's rear adjacent to a boiler room.
- Conventional boilers heat up a store of water using a hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard and a header tank somewhere high - usually the loft.
- Last week I got a whopping discount on a new gas boiler, on account of my age. Times, Sunday Times
- The industry is highly vertically integrated, with poultry production companies (known as integrators) contracting with farmers (referred to as growers) to raise the birds prior to slaughter Number of broilers and other meat-type chickens sold in the United States, 2007 (Source: USDA Census of Agriculture, 2007). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Costs have been cut by changing the crude mix and switching the plant's boilers to burn gas rather than more expensive fuel oil. Times, Sunday Times
- But many Nashville residents are unconvinced, leaving government and civic leaders worried that the once-done Oilers deal actually could collapse.
- It may have been the way the exhaust pipe stained his boiler suit.
- This building also repaired tenders in steam days; a much taller section of the roof allowed boilers to be stood on end for riveting.
- When it found one, it would automatically tweet them back with a plot spoiler. Times, Sunday Times