Use "oilcan" in a sentence

1. It might have been thought that the deluge had given him the oppor-tunity to sit and reflect and that the business of the pliers and the oilcan had awakened in him the tardy yearning of so many useful trades that he might have followed in his life and did not; but neither case was true, because the temptation of a sedentary domesticity that was besieging him was not the result of any redis-covery or moral lesion