axle grease

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   a thick heavy grease used to lubricate axles

   Broadergrease

Questions about axle grease

What does axle grease mean?

axle grease means "a thick heavy grease used to lubricate axles".

Is axle grease a common word?

axle grease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.