elbow-grease

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Persevering exercise of the arms, exciting perspiration; hard rubbing.--Glossaries of Brockett and Carr.

These were the manners, these the ways,

In good Queen Bess's golden days;

Each damsel owed her bloom and glee

To wholesale elbow-grease and me.

Smart, Fable 5.

Related Words

elbow-grease
Hard labour with the arms. ...

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elbow grease
Labour. Elbow grease will make an oak table shine. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Grease
·vt To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. II. Grease ·vt To cheat or cozen; to <<Overreach>...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to grease
To bribe. To grease a man in the fist; to bribe him. To grease a fat sow in the a-se; to give to a r...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Elbow
·vi To push rudely along; to elbow one's way. II. Elbow ·vt To push or hit with the elbow, as when ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
elbow
That part of a river where it suddenly changes its direction, forming a reach to the next angle or t...

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Grease cock
·add. ·- ·Alt. of <<Cup>>. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Elbow Lane
Identified with College Street and Little College Street (q.v.). Its earlier name was "Eldebowe Lane...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
elbow room
Sufficient space to act in. Out at elbows; said of an estate that is mortgaged. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
elbow shaker
A gamester, one who rattles Saint Hugh's bones, i.e. the dice. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
slick as grease
Another classical expression, conveying the same idea as the foregoing. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Great Elbow Lane
See College Street. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Little Elbow Lane
See Little College Street. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
crook your elbow
To crook one's elbow, and wish it may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not true--ac...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
elbow in the hawse
Two crosses in a hawse. When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby...

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