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OILED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treated with oil
Example:
an oiled walnut table
Classified under:
Antonym:
unoiled (in need of oil treatment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb oil
Context examples:
One is not even made wet by the rain nor cold by the frost; while death, instead of stalking about grewsome and accidental, becomes a prearranged pageant, moving along a well-oiled groove to the family vault, where the hinges are kept from rusting and the dust from the air is swept continually away.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Therefore it was decided to start upon their journey the next morning, and the Woodman sharpened his axe on a green grindstone and had all his joints properly oiled.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
When he had finished, he thanked her kindly and oiled himself thoroughly with his jeweled oil-can, to guard against mishap.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
"They are rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all; if I am well oiled I shall soon be all right again. You will find an oil-can on a shelf in my cottage."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
So she oiled it, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side to side until it worked freely, and then the man could turn it himself.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
