Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Oil obtained from the blubber of a whale or other marine animal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Oil drawn or tried out from the blubber of a whale; especially, ordinary oil from the right whale, as distinguished from sperm-oil.
Wiktionary
- n. whale oil
GNU Webster's 1913
- Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber; formerly used as an illuminant
Etymologies
- Middle English trane, from Middle Dutch, tear, drop, train oil; see dakru- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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whaling terms
Terms defined in the glossary of Clifford W. Ashley's "Yankee Whaler".
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