Crossword clues for unoiled
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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Not having been oiled. Etymology 2
v
(en-past of: unoil)
WordNet
adj. in need of oil treatment; "dusty unoiled roads"; "a dull unoiled table" [ant: oiled]
not having oil rubbed into the surface
Usage examples of "unoiled".
Again the crows descend on the clearing, but instead of stopping in the beeches, they circle cacophonously unoiled over Gutenberg's iron temple, then over the snow man.
Luck was with me, for the sound-a grating of metal on metal and a soft squeal of unoiled hinges-came from directly in front of me, from behind the Tilt-a-Whirl, where trucks and unlit arc lamps and generators and other pieces of equipment were lined up along the middle of the midway, with rides on both sides.
An empty twenty-by-twenty studio apartment with a body-damaged sofa, a bookcase with fourteen books in it and lots of waiting space, an easy chair bought on the cheap from Goodwill Industries, a Sears, Roebuck unpainted pinewood desk with an unoiled 1934 Underwood Standard typewriter on it, as big as a player piano and as loud as wooden clogs on a carpetless floor.