WHALE OIL


Meaning of WHALE OIL in English

noun

: a water-white to brown oil obtained from the blubber of whales and used in tempering steel, in dressing leather, after hydrogenation in making margarine and soap, as a lubricant, and formerly as an illuminant — called also train oil

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