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train oil

whale oil, or, formerly, oil from seals, codfish, etc.

Etymology: earlier trane < MDu traen, akin to Ger träne, a tear: basic sense “exuded oil”

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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