seal oil †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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oil from rendered seal fat.

Quotations

1829

Seal oil would produce good gas, and so would that of porpoise and grampus. . . .

1958

Usually, a seal oil lamp, a rectangular soapstone receptacle which is filled with seal oil and has a wick made of moss, is used for heating.

1965

Large vats for the manufacture of seal oil were to be seen at Fogo, Twillingate, Greenspond, and Trinity, and in the ports of Conception Bay.