Dippel's oil
- noun
- Specialized
:
aceite de Dippel
- Farmers often use Dippel's oil to treat their sheep.
Examples
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The use of Dippel's oil in denaturing alcohol dates back to the 19th century.
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The unpleasant odor of Dippel's oil made it easy to identify during chemical production.
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Sheep farmers once relied on Dippel's oil for protecting their flocks from parasites.
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Have you ever smelled Dippel's oil?
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Sheep farmers once relied on Dippel's oil for protecting their flocks from parasites.
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The use of Dippel's oil in denaturing alcohol dates back to the 19th century.
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The unpleasant odor of Dippel's oil made it easy to identify during chemical production.
Synonyms
An oily liquid from heated animal bones used as a lubricant or to treat leather
Surface Forms
Morphology
Dippel's + oil
This is an eponymic phrase: the possessive proper noun 'Dippel's' carries no transparent semantic contribution for a learner, so knowing 'oil' only indicates a liquid. The specific technical meaning (oil obtained from heating animal bones, used in sheep dips/denaturing alcohol) is specialized and cannot be derived from the constituents, so a B1 learner would not be able to infer it.
Etymology
Dippel's oil is named after a man called Johann Dippel, who made a dark, bad-smelling oil by heating animal bones. Farmers used that oil to dip sheep and to make alcohol unsafe to drink, so the name came to mean that smelly, dark liquid.
