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neatsfoot oil
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neatsfoot oil [′nēts‚fu̇t ‚ȯil]
(materials)
Pale-yellow oil with unusual odor; soluble in organic solvents and kerosine; obtained by boiling shinbones and hoofless feet of cattle; used to treat leather, as a lubricant, and to oil wool. Also known as bubulum oil; hoof oil.


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The new boots would then have been filled with neat's-foot oil and hung up in the roof of the shed to season.
Neat's-foot oil, shaving cream, water, mallets and good-old American spit also work, but you could let it happen naturally.
I lunged around cluelessly in frantic, random circles, so that the ball always landed a minimum of 40 feet from where I wound up standing, desperately thrusting out my glove, which was a Herb Score model that, on my coach's recommendation, I had treated with neat's-foot oil so it would be supple.
 
 
 
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