Sentence examples for sperm oil from inspiring English sources
noun
Whale oil from a sperm whale
See also sperm oil and spermaceti.
SPERM OIL quiet at £80@£81.
Bottlenose oil is very similar to spermaceti and was known as "Arctic sperm oil".
It sold for a lower price and gummed more easily than sperm oil.
Then there's his analysis of the vast economy that these animal islands bankrolled: a world lit - literally - by sperm oil.
You feel like a sperm-oil salesman at the Petroleum Club".
Now, as is clear from the Amtrak timetable and fare sheet, plenteous train service has gone the way of telegrams and sperm-oil candles.
Whereas myristoleic acid is commonly found in fish oils, whale oils, and dairy butter, cetyl myristoleate is known to exist only naturally in sperm whale oil and in a small gland in the male beaver.
Sperm whale oil is still used "as a lubricant in the guidance systems of ICBMs," a savage irony.
Flowering Time: Generally Mar--May Note: Important as forage pl; seed wax a substitute for sperm whale oil; fruit edible.
