Crossword-Solution: OILING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oiling | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Oil |
We have 23 clues for the answer “OILING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Doing a lube job | 1 answer |
| Step in a hair care routine | 1 answer |
| Seeking to squelch a squeak | 1 answer |
| Seeking to quiet a squeak | 1 answer |
| Mechanic's job, at times | 1 answer |
| Machine shop activity | 1 answer |
| Lubricating, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Lubricating | 1 answer |
| Lubing | 1 answer |
| Loosening, as a joint | 1 answer |
| Inuncting | 1 answer |
| Getting the creaks out | 1 answer |
| Conditioning, as leather | 1 answer |
| Conditioning, as a baseball mitt | 1 answer |
| Conditioning, as a bamboo cutting board | 1 answer |
| Buttering up | 1 answer |
| Bodybuilder's preshow activity | 1 answer |
| Bit of machine maintenance | 1 answer |
| Mechanic's job | 4 answers |
| A GOOD MECHANIC | 11 answers |
| ANOINTING AS PART OF A RELIGIOUS CEREMONY OR HEALING RITUAL | 11 answers |
| ANOINTING | 26 answers |
| lubrication | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OILING (5)
The Unhappy Fate of the Demon Who Knows? These things are quite improbable, to be sure; but are they impossible? Our big world rolls over as smoothly as it did centuries ago, without a squeak to show it needs oiling after all these years of revolution.
When the office machinery needed mental oiling, when a new hand demanded to be put on silk-work instead of mercerized, when a consignment of skirt-material turned out to be more than usually metallic, it was in Mrs.
Otis, ‘I really must insist on your oiling those chains, and have brought you for that purpose a small bottle of the Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator.
Edison has strong convictions on the liberal use of lubricants, but argued that in the ordinary oiling of machinery there is great waste, while much dirt is conveyed into the bearings.
Lubrication is by means of two rotary pumps, one feeding through the hollow crankshaft to the crank pin, giving centrifugal feed to big end and thence splash oiling, and one feeding to the nose of the engine, dropping on to the cams and forming a permanent sump for the gears on the bottom of the engine nose.
Quotes with OILING (3)
..begin by talking about the kind of existentialist chaos that exists in our own lives and our inability to overcome the sense of alienation and frustration we experience when we try to create bonds of intimacy and solidarity with one another. Now part of this frustration is to be understood again in relation to structures and institutions. In the way in which our culture of consumption has promoted an addiction to stimulation - one that puts a premium on packaged and commodi…
Class never runs scared. It is sure-footed and confident. It can handle anything that comes along. Class has a sense of humor. It knows a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class knows that good manners are nothing more than a series of small, inconsequential sacrifices. Class bespeaks an aristocracy that has nothing to do with ancestors or money. Some wealt…
I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1988–2024).