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Lamp oil

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any clean-burning oil used as fuel in an oil lamp. countable, uncountable

    "Near-synonym: (often synonymous) kerosene"

  2. 2
    a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English lamp oyl, lampehoyle, lamp oyle, lampe oyl, lampe oyle, equivalent to lamp + oil. Compare West Frisian lampoalje (“lamp-oil”), Dutch lampolie (“lamp-oil”), German Lampenöl (“lamp-oil”), Danish lampeolie (“lamp-oil”), Swedish lampolja (“lamp-oil”), Icelandic lampaolía (“lamp-oil”).

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