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neat's-foot oil
[ neets-foot ]
noun
- a pale-yellow fixed oil made by boiling the feet and shinbones of cattle, used chiefly as a dressing for leather.
neat's-foot oil
noun
- a yellow fixed oil obtained by boiling the feet and shinbones of cattle and used esp to dress leather
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of neat's-foot oil1
Example Sentences
Leather can be preserved for years by the use of saddle soap and neat's-foot oil, but once it becomes hard and cracked nothing will make it serviceable.
These people remained here for some time, subsisting on shrimp salad, sea-moss farina, and neat's-foot oil.
Before using, perfectly new equipment should in all cases be given a light application of neat's-foot oil; soap is unnecessary because the leather is clean.
Let it receive as much neat's-foot oil as it will take.
Behind it dangled from dusty pegs portions of leather harness, which all the neat's-foot oil of the military pharmacopœia could never again restore to softness or pliability.
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