OILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oiled mean? 

• OILED (adjective)
  The adjective OILED has 1 sense:

1. treated with oil

  Familiarity information: OILED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OILED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treated with oil

Context example:

an oiled walnut table

Antonym:

unoiled (in need of oil treatment)

 Context examples 

It was still the same groove and well oiled.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But the Scarecrow seized the oil-can from Dorothy's basket and oiled the Woodman's jaws, so that after a few moments he could talk as well as before.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

See that the triggers are oiled, Ambrose, for I love a light pull.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I sought the key of the side-door in the kitchen; I sought, too, a phial of oil and a feather; I oiled the key and the lock.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And he could conclude only that there were no warm human men at the other end, only mere cogs, well oiled and running beautifully in the machine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They had seldom seen him eat so heartily at any table but his own, and never before known him so little disconcerted by the melted butter's being oiled.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully until they were quite free from rust and as good as new.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He opened the kit bag and oiled his wheel, putting graphite on the chain and adjusting the bearings.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The light in the cabin was dim, filtering through in a small window made of onion-skin writing paper and oiled with bacon grease, so that John Messner could not make out very well what the woman looked like.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

So they oiled his legs until he could move them freely; and he thanked them again and again for his release, for he seemed a very polite creature, and very grateful.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)