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Lubricating oil   /lˈubrəkˌeɪtɪŋ ɔɪl/   Listen
Lubricating oil

noun
1.
A thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery).  Synonym: grease.






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"Lubricating oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... minutes more the gasoline tank was full, and then the two lads busied themselves putting the engine in running order, and in filling up the lubricating oil box. They also oiled up the working parts, and oiled the propeller bearings and the ...
— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer

... hand, rough and innocent of sand-paper, first cover the panels with a coat of shellac to prevent the oil in the filling from colouring them dark. Next, cover the body of the work with a wood filling composed of whiting and plaster of Paris, mixed with japan, benzine, and raw linseed-oil, or the lubricating oil made from petroleum; the whole covered with umber, to which, in the rare cases when a reddish shade is wanted, Venetian red is also added. This filling is then rubbed off with cloths, and by this process tends to close up the grain of the wood ...
— French Polishing and Enamelling - A Practical Work of Instruction • Richard Bitmead



Words linked to "Lubricating oil" :   oil, grease, axle grease



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