sump oil
English
Noun
- Lubricating oil contained in the sump of an engine; the waste oil drained from the sump at the time of an oil change.
- 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767:
- Dirty sump oil is pumped out along a waste oil pipe line to storage tanks by the boiler house, to be used as boiler fuel.
References
- “sump oil”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “sump oil”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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