...flask is nearly full, they add a little oil instead of a cork to prevent evaporation, so that to oil a flask is equivalent to filling it to the brim. In...signifies to anoint with oil, and also to fill up a cask. WANTON.—It is a mistake of Skeat when he asserts that this word had never been explained. In the...

...flask is nearly full, they add a little oil instead of a cork to prevent evaporation, so that to oil a flask is equivalent to filling it to the brim. In...signifies to anoint with oil, and also to fill up a cask.' — Wedgwood. And, in fact, we find in Cotgrave the following: 'oiellage de vins, the filling up of...

...up a cask, and says that ' in the B. of France, when the flask is nearly full, they add a little ml to prevent evaporation, so that to oil the flask is equivalent to filling it to the brim ']: among gangers, what a cask wants of being full; properly, the quantity required to fill it up....

...[Phillips] Oiler, ouiller [means] to fill to the brim, to swill with drink. In the South of France, when the flask is nearly full they add a little oil...filling it to the brim. In Provence, oliar signifies to annoint with oil, and also to fill up a cask. [From] French eullage, to fill up to the bung-hole. [Wedgwood]...