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Oiler

noun

A worker who oils engines or machinery.

A well that yields or has yielded oil. Synonym: oil well.

A cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk. Synonyms: oil tanker, tank ship, tanker.

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"Oiler" Quotes from Famous Books

... hours before Thomas Jefferson had a first mortgage on every soul aboard the "Sleeping Sealer," from the cap'n to the oiler down in the engine-room. He was able, all right, but you couldn't have made an able seaman out of him in a hundred years. For all that, he did the work of three men. The first thing you heard when you woke up in the morning was his whistle, and the last thing you heard at night ...

— Thomas Jefferson Brown • James Oliver Curwood

Words linked to "Oiler" : gusher, oil well, stripper well, wildcat well, wildcat, oil, well, cargo ship, worker, stripper, tanker, cargo vessel, supertanker, spouter