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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
train oil
 
NOUN: Oil obtained from the blubber of a whale or other marine animal.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English trane, from Middle Dutch, tear, drop, train oil. See dakru- in Appendix I.
 
 
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