grease-gun

THE F.A.N.Y. I wish my mother could see me now with a grease-gun under my car,

Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

Caliphate army officer, displaying the weapon -- it was an old M3, all right; Chalmers had used one of those things, himself, thirty years before, and he and his contemporaries had called it a "grease-gun."

The Edge of the Knife H. Beam Piper 1934