What does oilbath mean?
Oilbath means A bath of oil..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A bath of oil..
1970, Ronald Hare, The Birth of Penicillin and the Disarming of Microbes; quoted in 1979, Steven Lehrer, Explorers of the Body But one thing the place did possess, and that in abundance, was its smell: an all-pervading odour of hot oil reminiscent of an engine room, which was produced by the heated oilbaths in which we sterilised our syringes.
The next day, the sons take oilbaths.
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Oilbath means A bath of oil..
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1970, Ronald Hare, The Birth of Penicillin and the Disarming of Microbes; quoted in 1979, Steven Lehrer, Explorers of the Body But one thing the place did possess, and that in abundance, was its smell: an all-pervading odour of hot oil reminiscent of an engine room, which was produced by the heated oilbaths in which we sterilised our syringes.
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