oilbath

English

Etymology

oil +‎ bath

Noun

oilbath (plural oilbaths)

1. A bath of oil.
   • 1970, Ronald Hare, The Birth of Penicillin and the Disarming of Microbes; quoted in 1979, Steven Lehrer, Explorers of the Body

     But one thing the place did possess, and that in abundance, was its smell: an all-pervading odour of hot oil reminiscent of an engine room, which was produced by the heated oilbaths in which we sterilised our syringes.

   • 2001, Kumar Suresh Singh, People of India (volume 40, part 2, page 696)

     The next day, the sons take oilbaths.