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lamp oil

n. a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters [syn: kerosene, kerosine, coal oil]

Usage examples of "lamp oil".

Amid the pouches of lamp oil, cured salmon, and wax, he found a slender spike of steel the length of his forearm.

Drunk one night in the Great Hearth and bickering with his wife, Audie had reached for a jug of ale on the mantel but had seized upon a pitcher of lamp oil instead.

As he raised the pitcher to his mouth, a spark from the fire caught him and lamp oil ignited in his face.

They frantically bought every kind of comestible, clothing, wine, lamp oil and, though this was mid-August, even winter-weight blankets and buckets of coal.

Stores of candles, lamp oil, and various foodstuffs had been left behind.

If it weren't the need to get finishing oil or lamp oil, it was time to sweep the floor, or refill the moisture pot, or sharpen the chisels, or take the saws to Ginstal for sharpening, or reformulate the glue, or fix a stool or chair for Rissa.

I had to do the accounts before I left, and there wasn't much lamp oil left.