oilbath

plural oilbaths · alternative oil bath

1. A bath of oil.

   The next day, the sons take oilbaths.

   2001, Kumar Suresh Singh, People of India (volume 40, part 2, page 696)

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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.