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Oil Applied To Cricket Bats

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noun

• the seed of flax used as a source of oil

36%10Applied to cricket bats to maintain the wood
noun

• a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints

30%9Bats belonging to this genus are often called serotine bats
noun

• a genus of Vespertilionidae, commonly called house bats (Eptesicus)

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