oilery

plural oileries

1. uncountableThe business of producing oil from plants or animals.

   The oilery is a growing industry and a very useful one from many standpoints.

   1908, Canada. British Columbia Fisheries Commission, Report and Recommendations with Addenda and Appendices, page 29

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   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.

   1973, Women on the March - Volume 17, pages 1973-19

2. countableA factory or establishment that produces or sells such oil.

   There is no linear proportion among these, as the difference between large and medium oileries is much greater than between medium and small ones.

   2022, Dimitri Van Limbergen, Adeline Hoffelinck, Devi Taelman, Reframing the Roman Economy, page 191

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   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.

   1905 September, “Georgia Fertilizer Tags”, in American Fertilizer, volume 23, number 3, page 16

   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.

   2021, Richard Pine, The Quality of Life: Essays on Cultural Politics, 1978-2018, page 240

3. uncountableOil products such as cooking oil, heating oil, oil-based toiletries, and foods preserved in oil.

   Medicinal herbs and minerals not included in the two published catalogues could be sold not only in pharmacies, but also in oilery and green shops.

   2019, Elena Vishlenkova, Sergei Zatravkin, “Polish medicine in the Russian Empire in the first third of the 19th century”, in Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, volume 64, number 2, page 72

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   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.

   1836, George Canning, Roger Therry, The Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning, page 225

   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.

   1867, English Reports Annotated, 1866-1900 - Volume 1, page 566

   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.

   1969, The Free Enquirer - Volume 2, Issue 4, page 403