Definition of "whale-oil" [whale-oil]

• The oil obtained from the blubber of a whale or other cetacean. (noun)
• Oil discolored in running machinery. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "They had prepared to overwinter, they had whale-oil supplies, seal meat."
• "While he was away I placed the whale-oil cooking lamp in the middle of the igloo, and moved the mangy sleeping furs back that I might have room."
• "He had brought with him a coconut calabash, tightly stoppered, of whale-oil that must have been landed on Lahaina beach thirty years before."