"storm oil" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1914, Leslie's, page 322",
          "text": "While bound east, latitude 41 degrees, longitude 56 degrees 54 minutes, during a northerly gale with very high rolling seas, used storm oil through forward waste pipe with good effect.",
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          "ref": "1956, All Hands, page 15",
          "text": "With the appearance of more modern ships, storm oil lost much of its importance, but even today power-driven U. S. merchant ships of more than 200 gross tons are required to carry 30 gallons of it and those of 5000 tons or more ...",
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          "ref": "2000, Earl R. Hinz, Heavy Weather Tactics Using Sea Anchors & Drogues, Paradise Cay Publications, page 151",
          "text": "The diameter at the mouth is 36 inches; the length is approximately 54 inches, with a 1-gallon storm oil container. This would be a very awkward item to stow on board, to say nothing about storing additional storm oil.",
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        "Oil carried by a ship and dispersed into an area of water to calm it (as it absorbs some of the energy of waves, and covers a large area in a slick film upon which wind can get less traction to produce waves)."
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "oil",
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          "word": "Wellenberuhigungsöl"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "oil",
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          "word": "Wellenöl"
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        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "shemen se'ara",
          "sense": "oil",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "שֶׁמֶן סְעָרָה"
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      "sense": "oil",
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      "word": "Wellenberuhigungsöl"
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      "word": "Wellenöl"
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