oil can

English

Noun

oil can (plural oil cans)

  1. Alternative form of oilcan.
    • 1955 February, E. J. Tyler and J. Quanjer, “The Steam Locomotive in Holland 1919-1954”, in Railway Magazine, page 131:
      The Dutch oil can is a wicked looking object about a yard long and each driver has his own place for keeping it, varying from behind the brake pump to the top of the outer firebox inside the cab.
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