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grease cup

noun



grease cup

noun

  1. a container that stores grease and feeds it through a small hole into a bearing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of grease cup1

First recorded in 1830–40
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When I was younger, I sat between my mother/older cousin/aunt/grandmother’s legs with jar of grease, cup of water, and tin of barrettes at the ready. 

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The rocker arm bearings are adequately lubricated by a compression grease cup.

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Among the tools, all fashioned from materials in the prison workshops: a blowtorch made from a large grease cup, a brace and bit from pipe parts.

Smaltz kept rolling his head back and forth in an oil-soaked spot where a grease cup leaked.

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The candle had burned out in the grease cup, the wind was rocking the shanty and making the rafters creak dismally.

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