bone oil

What does bone oil mean?

bone oil means "the liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bone oil?

Close synonyms include Dippel's oil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bone oil a common word?

bone oil is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bone oil come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.