DCHP-3

oilies

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.pl.

waterproof clothing, originally oilskins but now often made of a kind of rubberized fabric.

See: oilers

Quotations

1923
In the night of 4th January, 1922, Mathew Munro . . . cast on a lee shore in a blizzard, swam off in his sea-boots and "oilies" with a line and dragged the five men of his crew to safety.