oilbath

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English

Etymology

From oil +‎ bath.

Noun

oilbath (plural oilbaths)

  1. A bath of oil.
    • 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.
    • 2001, Kumar Suresh Singh, People of India (volume 40, part 2, page 696)
      The next day, the sons take oilbaths.