oilery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Oil products such as cooking oil, heating oil, oil-based toiletries, and foods preserved in oil.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The oilery is a growing industry and a very useful one from many standpoints."
- "In order to provide employment to rural artisans and craftsman, units of carpentary, black-smithery, pottery, weaving, dying, tanning, oilery and other arts and rafts, etc. may be established in the above — said Agro-industries Complex."
- "While the oilery is not permitted to catch salmon for conversion into oil and fertilizer, there is no law to prevent it receiving from the canneries fish which have been held so long that they are unfit for food and consequently cannot be canned."
- "There's a winery, a joinery, a blacksmith, an oilery where you take your olives for the pressing, a post office, two tavernas, two multi-purpose shops, one kafeneío (local cafébar), an ice-cream parlour, a car hire office and a petrol station doubling as a DIY store."
- "There is no linear proportion among these, as the difference between large and medium oileries is much greater than between medium and small ones."
- "Here the right honourable gentleman read rapidly from the civil list, "Oilery, grocery, lemons, fruits, and oranges, milk and cream, butter, cheese, and eggs, bacon, butcher-meat, poultry, fish, and vegetable, stationer, china and brazier, cider, and brandy, beer, bread, and wine"— ll those were detailed in that account, and must form part of the household charges."
Etymology
Compare French huilerie.