neat's-foot oil

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   a pale yellow oil made from the feet and legs of cattle; used as a dressing for leather

   Broaderanimal oil

Questions about neat's-foot oil

What does neat's-foot oil mean?

neat's-foot oil means "a pale yellow oil made from the feet and legs of cattle; used as a dressing for leather".

Is neat's-foot oil a common word?

neat's-foot 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.