油あぶら壺つぼ

noun

oil bottle; hair oil container

Historically a small bottle or pot for holding hair oil (椿油など). Now mostly encountered in historical or traditional contexts.

• 昔むかしの日に本ほん女じょ性せいは、油あぶら壺つぼから椿つばき油あぶらを手てに取とって髪かみに付つけていた。

  In the past, Japanese women would take camellia oil from an oil bottle and apply it to their hair.

noun

oilcup; oil cup

Mechanical part: a small reservoir that supplies lubricating oil to a bearing or moving part. Technical term.

• この機き械かいの軸じく受うけには、定てい期き的てきに油あぶら壺つぼから油あぶらを差さす必ひつ要ようがある。

  The bearings of this machine need to be oiled regularly from the oilcup.

noun

font; oil lamp font

The container part of an oil lamp that holds the oil. Also a technical or historical term.

• 古ふるいランプの油あぶら壺つぼに灯とう油ゆを満みたして火ひを灯ともした。

  I filled the font of the old lamp with kerosene and lit it.