oil from rendered seal fat.
- 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.