turpentine

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When his wound was healed he was told that he was too old and awkward for the turpentine, and that they needed younger and more active men So w'en I got my laig kyo'ed up," said the old man, concluding his story, "I come back hyuh whar I wuz bo'n, suh, and whar my w'ite folks use' ter live, an' whar my frien's use' ter be.

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  1. noun A thin volatile essential oil, C10H16, obtained by steam distillation or other means from the wood or exudate of certain pine trees and used as a paint thinner, solvent, and medicinally as a liniment. Also called oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine.
  2. noun The sticky mixture of resin and volatile oil from which turpentine is distilled.
  3. noun A brownish-yellow resinous liquid obtained from the terebinth.

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  1. Middle English, resin of the terebinth, from Old French terebentine, from Latin terebinthina (rēsīna), terebinth (resin), from Greek terebinthinē, feminine of terebenthinos, from terebinthos, terebinth tree.

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  1. Formerly also terpentine; from Middle English turbentyne = Middle Dutch terpentijn, termentijn, Dutch terpentijn = G. Swedish Danish terpentin, from Old French turbentine, terebentine, turpentine, terebenthine, Middle Latin terebintina, New Latin terebinthina, turpentine, from Latin terebinthina (sc. resina), feminine of terebinthinus, of the terebinth, from terebinthus, from Greek τερέβινθος, terebinth: see terebinth, and cf. terebinthine.
  2. from turpentine, n.
 

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/ˈtərpɛntaɪn/
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