What is "ungreased"

Usage examples of "ungreased".

Her eyes felt heavy and full of grit, and her mind seemed to be turning like an ungreased wheel, slowly grinding toward ruin as the sands wore it down.

The grating stopped, but Krysty could hear the squeak of an ungreased hinge.

With floured fingers, gently pat the dough into two ungreased 8-inch round cake pans.

With a thin screech of sound as if metal crossed metal long ungreased and near-rusted in place, a passage opened.

Sharpe pulled the handcart out of the cattle byre and listened to the ghastly screech of the wooden axle that ran through two ungreased wooden blocks.

He could tell that from the jolting motion and from the terrible squeal of the ungreased axles.

The control or ungreased radicles were not invariably attracted towards the bottom of the sieve.

With the ungreased radicles the chief seat of curvature is at a distance of not less than between 3.

On close examination only a single ungreased radicle could be found which had not become curved towards the sieve.

Not one of the very numerous ungreased radicles failed to come into close contact with the sieve.

Countless dark forms scurried in and out of the rings of firelight, while a medley of shouts, the roll of drums, neighs of horses, ceaseless hammerings, and the occasional creakings of ungreased axles all blended into waves of sound which rolled up the hill and lapped against the walls.

The wind stirred the dust, weeds grew between the paving stones, and a door creaked back and forth on ungreased hinges.

There was a creaking of ungreased wheels as several wagons came through the open, triangular main gate.

Then a train of Anamese carts passed, empty, the solid wooden wheels creaking frightfully round the ungreased axles, each cart being drawn by two buffaloes, each pair being attached to the cart in front by a rope through the nostrils, so that one driver sufficed for eleven carts.

The branch sagged, and now the creaking held a sinister note, like the creaking of the ungreased hinges of a tomb door in the least-frequented part of a graveyard.