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Lard oil

Lard \Lard\ (l[aum]rd), n. [F., bacon, pig's fat, L. lardum, laridum; cf. Gr. (?) fattened, fat.]

  1. Bacon; the flesh of swine. [Obs.]
    --Dryden.

  2. The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained.

    Lard oil, an illuminating and lubricating oil expressed from lard.

    Leaf lard, the internal fat of the hog, separated in leaves or masses from the kidneys, etc.; also, the same melted.

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lard oil

n. oil consisting chiefly of olein that is expressed from lard and used especially as a lubricant, cutting oil or illuminant

Usage examples of "lard oil".

Throwing these beside the back door she climbed to the loft over the spring house, and hunted an old lard oil lantern and one of first manufacture for oil.

Others were smearing the last heavy dabs of tallow, lard oil, and soft soap on the ways, and graphite where the ways stretched two hundred feet or so out into the water, for the ship was to travel some hundreds of feet on the land and in the water, and perhaps an equal distance out beyond the end of the ways.