dippel's oil

1. 1.

   dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol

   Synonymsbone oil

   Broaderanimal oil

Questions about dippel's oil

What does dippel's oil mean?

dippel's oil means "dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol".

What is another word for dippel's oil?

Close synonyms include bone 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 dippel's oil a common word?

dippel's oil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.