Definitions for oilers

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oilers oil·er

Spelling: [oi-ler]

IPA: /ˈɔɪ lər/

Oilers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in oilers (eilors).

Definitions for oilers

noun

1. a person or thing that oils.
2. a worker employed to oil machinery.
3. any of several devices, other than pressure devices, for feeding lubricating oil to a bearing.
4. an oilcan.
5. Often, oilers. an oilskin garment, especially a coat.
6. a ship using oil as fuel.
7. oil tanker.
8. an oil well.
9. any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
10. a substance of this or similar consistency.
11. refined or crude petroleum.
12. Painting. oil color. oil painting.
13. Informal. unctuous hypocrisy; flattery.
14. an oilskin garment.
15. Australian and New Zealand Slang. facts or news; information:

Idioms

1. pour oil on troubled waters, to attempt to calm a difficult or tense situation, as an argument.
2. strike oil, to discover oil, especially to bring in a well. to have good luck, especially financially; make an important and valuable discovery:

adjective

1. pertaining to or resembling oil.
2. using oil, especially as a fuel:
3. concerned with the production or use of oil:
4. made with oil.
5. obtained from oil.

verb (used with object)

1. to smear, lubricate, or supply with oil.
2. to bribe.
3. to make unctuous or smooth:
4. to convert into oil by melting, as butter.

Origin of oilers

First recorded in 1545-55; oil + -er¹

Examples for oilers

Twice Neville had taken the throttle and sent his oiler to clear the suctions.

oiler did not answer him but yelled to Shawn, "Hold her steady and fast!"

"Yes, sir: and I thought you had gone ashore with them," added the oiler.

Jack had to be content with the less euphonious title "Th' oiler."

And so the oiler, who was at the oars, turned the boat straight for the shore.

You might's well hand me that oiler, too, off'n the sink shelf.

This plan enabled the oiler and the correspondent to get respite together.

oiler turned to Shawn and said, "We'll not go back to-night."

It might have been an oiler or a repair-ship, or it might not have even been Navy.

In the engine-room the oiler could no longer move from the throttle.