oilery

English

Etymology

Compare French huilerie.

Noun

oilery (countable and uncountable, plural oileries)

1. (uncountable) The business of producing oil from plants or animals.
   • 1908, Canada. British Columbia Fisheries Commission, Report and Recommendations with Addenda and Appendices, page 29:

     The oilery is a growing industry and a very useful one from many standpoints.

   • 1973, Women on the March - Volume 17, pages 1973-19:

     In order to provide employment to rural artisans and craftsman, units of carpentary, black-smithery, pottery, weaving, dying, tanning, oilery and other arts and rafts, etc. may be established in the above — said Agro-industries Complex.

2. (countable) A factory or establishment that produces or sells such oil.
   • 1905 September, “Georgia Fertilizer Tags”, in American Fertilizer, volume 23, number 3, page 16:

     While the oilery is not permitted to catch salmon for conversion into oil and fertilizer, there is no law to prevent it receiving from the canneries fish which have been held so long that they are unfit for food and consequently cannot be canned.

   • 2021, Richard Pine, The Quality of Life: Essays on Cultural Politics, 1978-2018, page 240:

     There's a winery, a joinery, a blacksmith, an oilery where you take your olives for the pressing, a post office, two tavernas, two multi-purpose shops, one kafeneío (local cafébar), an ice-cream parlour, a car hire office and a petrol station doubling as a DIY store.

   • 2022, Dimitri Van Limbergen, Adeline Hoffelinck, Devi Taelman, Reframing the Roman Economy, page 191:

     There is no linear proportion among these, as the difference between large and medium oileries is much greater than between medium and small ones.

3. (uncountable) Oil products such as cooking oil, heating oil, oil-based toiletries, and foods preserved in oil.
   • 1836, George Canning, Roger Therry, The Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning, page 225:

     Here the right honourable gentleman read rapidly from the civil list, "Oilery, grocery, lemons, fruits, and oranges, milk and cream, butter, cheese, and eggs, bacon, butcher-meat, poultry, fish, and vegetable, stationer, china and brazier, cider, and brandy, beer, bread, and wine"— ll those were detailed in that account, and must form part of the household charges.

   • 1867, English Reports Annotated, 1866-1900 - Volume 1, page 566:

     One of the plaintiffs had for many years held, and he still retained, an appointment from Her Majesty's Board of Green Cloth, as purveyor of oilery (under which term pickles are included) to Her Majesty, and he and his firm claimed, by virtue of this appointment, to have the exclusive right to use the royal arms as part of their trade-mark.

   • 1969, The Free Enquirer - Volume 2, Issue 4, page 403:

     Here we have for luxuries in the last item of oilery, a sun which is nearly equal to the six year's salary of the President of America: or a year's education for 24,204 children at infant schools.

   • 2019, Elena Vishlenkova, Sergei Zatravkin, “Polish medicine in the Russian Empire in the first third of the 19th century”, in Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki, volume 64, number 2, page 72:

     Medicinal herbs and minerals not included in the two published catalogues could be sold not only in pharmacies, but also in oilery and green shops.

Anagrams

• O'Riley