What is "axle grease"

Usage examples of "axle grease".

Then, the steak dripping in his left hand, he crossed to one of the silent British guns and, ignoring its crew, stooped under the barrel to scrape away a handful of the gun's axle grease.

Price sipped the tea, then grimaced at its sour aftertaste of axle grease.

Another night that Tyler didn't come home, someone was drilling bank machines and pay telephones and then screwing lube fittings into the drilled holes and using a grease gun to pump the bank machines and pay telephones full of axle grease or vanilla pudding.

On the advice of an army surgeon he had put axle grease behind his ears to protect against the chafing wire, but still the earpieces irritated him.

It looked as though he had abandoned the use of axle grease, but he had certainly attempted to comb his hair - Harry could see the comb's broken teeth tangled in it.

Uncorking the top and dipping in his fingers, he scooped out something that looked suspiciously like axle grease.

It was the first time in his life that he had had a bed and room of his own and he revelled in the sensation, sniffing the aroma of axle grease and paraffin and the dead coals in the forge as he fell asleep.

The boy's upper lip was decorated by a faint shadow that looked more like a smudge of axle grease than a mustache.