Miler vs Oiler - What's the difference?
miler | oiler |
an athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile (often used in a compound with a number or fraction )
* 1905, E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night
* 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door
(nautical) An oil tanker
An oil well
A junior role in the engine room of a ship, senior only to a wiper, consisting mainly of keeping machinery lubricated.
As nouns the difference between miler and oiler
is that miler is an athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile (often used in a compound with a number or fraction ) while oiler is (nautical) an oil tanker.miler
English
Noun
(en noun)- But the master himself was an old Oxford miler , who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind.
- The champion sprinter is seldom a five-miler as well.
