linseed oil
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- noun
- /ˈlɪnˌsiːd ɔɪl/
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- The big orderly room smelled of milled wood and linseed oil.
- linseed oil and turpentine
- cold-pressed linseed oil
- boiled linseed oil
Examples
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We're still going to take our boiled linseed oil and we're going to rub it on the entire tool.
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Classic binders are made from gum Arabic, egg yolks, and stand oil (a form of linseed oil). As in oil painting, the perfection of the technology is classically credited to Titian.
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Get boiled linseed oil, I know.
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The darker painted walls are one layer of linseed oil.
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I could smell fresh paint and the yellowy linseed oil he always worked with.
Fiction book (1998) -
I decided not to use varnish and instead tried some quick drying linseed oil to give it a more natural look.
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Sand and apply a coat of linseed oil to wooden handles and light machine oil to metal parts to prevent rust.
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He was putting the finish on a chair, rubbing boiled linseed oil.
Fiction book (1993) -
We sealed it with a 50/50 mix of boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits.
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The artist preferred to use linseed oil for its ability to enhance the colors in his paintings.
Synonyms
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An oil from flax seeds used as food and in paints or varnishes
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Morphology
The meaning 'oil obtained from linseed' is directly and compositionally derived from 'linseed' (seeds of the flax plant) + 'oil' (a fatty liquid), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the referent. This is a regular noun–noun compound found cross-linguistically, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Linseed oil comes from the simple image of pressing the seeds of the flax plant to squeeze out oil. linseed is the flax seed and oil is the liquid made by pressing those seeds, and because people used this oil for paint and to protect wood, the phrase means the oil made from flax seeds.