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n. (oily rag English)
Usage examples of "oily rags".
Despite the oily rags that had wrapped it, Verity's sword was tarnished with disuse.
In the interval he had lighted the oily rags bound around the quarrel from the rekindled firepot.
The transmitter caught fire and burned very quickly from the oily rags stuffed inside to protect it from moisture, and soon there wasn't a trace remaining that it had existed.
I don't think they'd be apt to test you in a room full of paper and oily rags, do .
The retaining nets had torn loose, and oily rags, old flight discs and empty insulite cups had been flung around the cockpit.
Around the tank and the vehicles we planted a few oily rags and dumped some diesel oil on the ground.
On the floor, on tables in the hall below, there were several such, all cleaned and wrapped in oily rags, and wrapped too in mystery.
There were four of them stacked beside the fire, their heads wrapped in oily rags.