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☆ coal oil

  1. kerosene or any other oil obtained by fractional distillation of petroleum
  2. crude petroleum
  3. unrefined oil, obtained by destructive distillation of coal: used as a lamp fuel

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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