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greased, ppl. a.|griːzd, griːst|
[f. grease v. + -ed1.]
1. Smeared, anointed, or lubricated with grease.
greased pole = greasy pole (see greasy a. 9). Phr. as quick as, or like, greased lightning (colloq.): used to denote extreme quickness of movement.
a1529Skelton Agst. Garnesche ii. 5 (Your) lothesum lere to loke on, lyke a gresyd bote dothe schyne. 1552Huloet, Greased or dressed wyth grease or fat, ædipatus. Greased or anoynted wyth grease, vnctus. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1702) I. 537 They rub Soot over the greased parts. 1789Nicholson in Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 273 Grease the cylinder by turning it against a greased leather. 1833Boston, Lincoln, etc. Herald 15 Jan. 3/6 He spoke as quick as ‘greased lightning’. 1849D. Campbell Inorg. Chem. 73 The mouth of the bottle is secured by a greased stopper. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe xiii. (1894) 306 Others..put it [mountaineering] on a level with the passion for climbing greased poles. 1880Malleson Ind. Mutiny III. 470 Sir John Lawrence arrived at the conclusion that the mutiny was due to the greased cartridges, and to the greased cartridges only.
b. fig. Bribed.
1693Dryden Persius iii. (1697) 444 Envy not the Store Of the greaz'd Advocate, that grinds the Poor.
c. (See quot. Cf. grease n. 4.)
1848Arnould Mar. Insur. iii. vii. II. 1025 The hides were found to be in a state of incipient putrefaction..; they were all, as it is termed ‘greased’, the hair coming off in the fingers of those who handled them.
2. Of a horse: Affected with ‘grease’.
1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4695/4 A..Gelding..lately greas'd in the..Feet. 1720Ibid. No. 5831/4 The..Preparation of Antimony..cures Greased Heels. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy I. x. (1760) 43 His horse was either clapp'd, or spavin'd or greaz'd. c1785T. Bewick Waiting for Death in A. Dobson Bewick & Pupils ix. 155 Becoming greased, spavined, [etc.], he was judged to be only fit for the dogs. |