oyl

oyl

1. Obsolete spelling of oil.
   • 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[1], London: John Macock, page 270:

     Near to the Iſland Hainan are caught Whales,after the ſame manner as the Hollanders and Engliſh in the North about Greenland, whereof they make Oyl which ſerves for ſeveral uſes.

   • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 14:

     ...into the glands that separate the oyl abovesaid.

• oyly

• 'oly, Loy, loy, lyo-

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɔɪl]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɔɪl]

oyl m (plural oylys)

1. oil

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 142

oyl

1. alternative form of oyle