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Sperm oil   /spərm ɔɪl/   Listen
Sperm oil

noun
1.
An animal oil found in the blubber of the sperm whale.





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"Sperm oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... ship had nearly completed her cargo of sperm oil, and was about to return home, she was overtaken by a hurricane, and driven on shore and lost; the crew were saved, and so was the captain's chest. Most of Captain Scarsdale's hard-earned gains were swallowed up; and the command of another whaler, whose master had died, being offered ...
— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston


Words linked to "Sperm oil" :   animal oil


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