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bone oil

noun

1 bone oil

The liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture.

2 bone oil

Dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol.

synonym: Dippel's oil.


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