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Seal oil   /sil ɔɪl/   Listen
Seal oil

noun
1.
A pale yellow to red-brown fatty oil obtained from seal blubber; used in making soap and dressing leather and as a lubricant.





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"Seal oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... appetite to enjoy it. Great twenty-five pound white fish were produced from skin bags and sliced off to be eaten raw. Reindeer meat was stewed in copper kettles. Hard tack was soaked in water and mixed with reindeer suet. Tea from the ever present Russian tea kettle and seal oil from a sewed up seal skin took the place of drink and relish. The tea was good, the seal oil unspeakable, a liquid not even to be smelled of by a ...
— Triple Spies • Roy J. Snell


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