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Paraffin oil   /pˈɛrəfən ɔɪl/   Listen
Paraffin oil

noun
1.
(British usage) kerosine.  Synonym: paraffin.






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"Paraffin oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... but there could be a tent without his seeing it. What I seen myself was the things the young fellow bought in Brannigan's and put into Flanagan's old boat. He had a can of paraffin oil with a cork drove into the neck of it, and he'd two loaves of bread done up in brown paper, and he'd a couple of tins that might be meat of one kind or another, and along with them he had a pound of tea and ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham



Words linked to "Paraffin oil" :   lamp oil, kerosene, coal oil, kerosine



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