oilbath

== English == === Etymology === From oil +‎ bath. === Noun === oilbath (plural oilbaths) 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. ==== Alternative forms ==== oil bath