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Stubborn stain
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grease
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Word definitions for grease in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN elbow ▪ I give the pink botty a thorough good scrub, putting in plenty of elbow grease . ▪ Cleaning Thanks to the availability of steam, cleaning is now a simple task, taking very little effort and no elbow grease ...
Usage examples of grease.
It appears, therefore, at first sight that greasing the tips of these radicles had checked but little their bending to the adjoining damp surface.
His soap had hardly stiffened afore it ran right back to lye and grease agin.
The ammoniacal fluid was harsh, and smelled strong, but it dissolved oils and grease on her skin and in her hair, and it killed any lice or fleas she might have picked up.
The bathroom floor was littered with shards of shattered ashet and the walls were awash with grease from the exploded goose.
There was no pipeclay here to be caked onto crossbelts and musket slings, no blackball to be used on boots and no grease and powder to be slathered on the hair.
With the evidence of Annie, as to the candle grease on the floor, and as to seeing the prisoner take the coffee into the boudoir, the proceedings were adjourned until the following day.
No grease is ever allowed to foul the gasoline, no sludge to find its way into the carb, no bolt to loosen on the driveshaft.
The Ganmiddich roundhouse was high ceilinged, damp, lit by fish-oil lanterns that made the walls slick with grease.
It is palpable, undisguised grease, floating in rivers--not grease caused by accidental bad cookery, but grease on purpose.
If greased with soap or pomatum, it will slip into the front of a cunny with ease.
In rifling the closet of the ladie, they found a wafer of sacramental bread, having the divels name stamped thereon in steed of JESUS Christ, and a pipe of ointment, wherewith she greased a staffe, upon whish she ambled and gallopped through thicke and thin when and in what manner she listed.
From the scattered litter in the general vicinity, it was obvious the dumpster contained broken glass, razor-sharp lids, dirty diapers, oil, grease, and filth, all baked in the sunshine and thoroughly ripe.
The smell of cooking grease, some foul egestion wafting aloft from the bilges, the fug of damp wool and unwashed bod- ies was fit to make him gag, but he forbore manfully.
You could talk to him about os and argos, suet and grease, croteys, fewmets and fiants, but he only looked polite.
A confident skip, with your boot soles well greased, on to the ice in a glaciarium for the first time would be nothing to it in its results, I fancy.