Oilery

Quick meaning: Oilery is a noun meaning (uncountable) The business of producing oil from plants or animals.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (countable) A factory or establishment that produces or sells such oil.
2. (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.

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 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.

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.

Word Forms

• oileries

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