WordNet
n. a pale yellow oil made from the feet and legs of cattle; used as a dressing for leather
Usage examples of "neat's-foot oil".
The blade came free from its sheath of leatherbound wood with a hiss of metal on oak greased with neat's-foot oil.
No keyhole in the door at the end of the hall and so we slide underneath like a telegram and into a room we immediately know is a boy's room: we can tell from the mingled smells of dirty athletic socks and neat's-foot oil.
The gelding's forehooves were big as war hammers, shiny with neat's-foot oil, and shod with iron.
His face alone boasted separate areas of beeswax, elk fat, and neat's-foot oil.
The rest are pulverized bone mixed with lard or neat's-foot oil, with different flavors.
His boots and other leather had been brushed and scrubbed and then re-suppled with neat's-foot oil, and his gray silk tunic and cloak washed, dried, and neatly mended, each new seam and patch interlocked and double-stitched.
The fingers rubbed a small amount of neat's-foot oil into the strop, slowly, without hurry.
Though it wore a mellow patina of age, it had been preserved with neat's-foot oil and loving care.
Even now he could remember the thrill when he unpacked the gold-stamped, gold-edged books with their elaborate leather covers, the smell of ink and paper and neat's-foot oil.