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▪ I. oleo, n.1 and a.|ˈəʊliːəʊ|
A. n.
1. Commercial contraction for oleomargarine, esp. in the U.S. sense of artificial butter or margarine.
1884Daily News 11 Dec. 3/6 There is one firm in London which is able to turn out from ten to twenty tons of this valuable oleo per week. 1888Pall Mall G. 26 Jan. 12/1 When the law [of Iowa] compelled the sale of ‘oleo’ for what it was... From 2c. to 3c. per pound more has been realized for the summer make of butter than would have been were it not for the ‘oleo’ law.
2. Aeronaut. An oleo strut or leg. (See B 2 below.)
1929F. H. & H. F. Colvin Aircraft Handbk. (ed. 4) iii. 64 To prepare oleo for use. 1. Pull piston out of cylinder and remove auxiliary piston. 2. Fill tube up to 6 inches from top with G.E. transformer oil No. 6. 3. Insert auxiliary piston with bolt head down. 4. Insert main piston. 1931Handbk. Aeronautics (R. Aeronaut. Soc.) iii. 190 (table) 2 Large oleos... 2 Small oleos... 2 Front struts... 2 Rear struts. 1958H. G. Conway Landing Gear Design ix. 184 The combination of tyre and oleo will thus have an efficiency well below 100 per cent. 1977D. Beaty Excellency xx. 223 He felt the main wheels shake on their oleos.
B. adj.
1. oleo oil: a name given (esp. in U.S.) to oleomargarine (in the Eng. and Fr. sense).
1893Thorpe Dict. Appl. Chem. III. 59 Pressure is gradually applied, and the expressed oil constitutes the ‘oleo oil’,..a soft, granular, tasteless, and nearly colourless fat. The hard fat remaining in the filter bags forms the ‘beef’ or oleo-stearin..sold to the soap and candle makers. a1895Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 3/2 In this country..they use oleo oil, or any other foreign fat, in order to make as close and good an imitation [of cheese] as they can.
2. [f. oleo-.] Applied to (a system containing) a telescopic strut, used esp. in aircraft undercarriages, which absorbs shocks by means of a hollow piston into which oil is forced through a small orifice on compression of the strut (see also quot. 1965).
1916N. J. Gill Flyer's Guide iii. 39 The commonest form of shock absorber is the rubber type, but Oleo gear are [sic] now also used to a considerable extent. 1920Flight XII. 14/1 The undercarriage is at present of the usual Vee type with stream-line steel tube struts and rubber shock absorbers, but later an oleo undercarriage will be fitted. 1935C. G. Burge Compl. Bk. Aviation 596/1 The piston must return to the original position as quickly as possible after each impact, and to secure this the oleo leg frequently incorporates a compressed-air chamber. 1965C. N. Van Deventer Introd. Gen. Aeronaut. vii. 149/2 The more usual method of absorbing the impact of landing is through the use of oleo struts. Of the two general types, one has a moving piston..and the other has a fixed piston and uses a spring instead of air. 1977D. Beaty Excellency i. 17 The searchlight began fingering the fuselage. The port oleo leg blossomed a brilliant silver.
▪ II. oleo, n.2 rare.|ˈəʊliːəʊ|
Abbreviation of oleograph.
1921Galsworthy Captures (1923) 57 Taking up the oleos, he turned his back on the photographs. 1932Daily Express 25 June 9/3 A little room hung with lace and oleos.
▪ III. oleo
obs. form of olio. |