(British usage) kerosine.
1Inside it lacked a modern heating system, the occupants preferring paraffin oil.
2There was an odor of rancid butter, spilled wine, and paraffin oil.
3The action is very much the same as in the paraffin oil lamp.
4What is the selling price of paraffin oil at your store?-2s.
5Where do you get your paraffin oil?-From Young's Paraffin Light Co.
6If constipation occurs, osmotic or paraffin oil laxatives should be used instead of bulking laxatives.
7A Good Furniture Polish.- Agoodfurniture polish may be made of paraffin oil and turpentine.
8There were stories of a bottle of paraffin oil and a cat that screeched in flames.
9Then, taking the blue paraffin oil at 4d.
10On special occasions we have requests for paraffin oil, of which, fortunately, we brought a good supply.
11It named its new product "petrol" from the French word pétrolé, meaning kerosene or paraffin oil.
12Many at the opening recalled the days when gas and paraffin oil lamps lit kitchens around the country.
13The great brilliancy of its illumination arises from its being lit by two hanging lamps burning paraffin oil.
14I may say that I supply the women with sugar and tea, and with paraffin oil when have it.
15Also it is distilled in Scotland from oil shale, from which paraffin oil and wax and similar substances are produced.
16This, by provoking deeper sympathy with the hero and greater execration of the villain, acted like paraffin oil on the flames.
Translations for paraffin oil