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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hand-powered pump used to force grease under pressure into bearings.
- noun A submachine gun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A device held in the hand, having a supply of grease and attached to a reservoir of pressurized air, used to force grease between adjacent moving parts of a machine, especially in the bearings of motor vehicles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
levered device for forcinggrease intomachinery . - noun colloquial a small
machine gun , particularly the .45calibre M3 used by the US inWW2 .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine
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