elbow grease

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• elbow-grease

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

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• elbow-grease

  Hard labour with the arms. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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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