Meaning

(uncountable) The business of producing oil from plants or animals..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The business of producing oil from plants or animals.
2. (countable) A factory or establishment that produces or sells such oil.
3. (uncountable) Oil products such as cooking oil, heating oil, oil-based toiletries, and foods preserved in oil.

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.

One of the plaintiffs had for many years held, and he still retained, an appointment from Her Majesty's Board of Green Cloth, as purveyor of oilery (under which term pickles are included) to Her Majesty, and he and his firm claimed, by virtue of this appointment, to have the exclusive right to use the royal arms as part of their trade-mark.

Here we have for luxuries in the last item of oilery, a sun which is nearly equal to the six year's salary of the President of America: or a year's education for 24,204 children at infant schools.

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• oileries

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Use oilery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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