grease cup

American  

noun

1. oilcup.

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grease cup British  

noun

1. a container that stores grease and feeds it through a small hole into a bearing

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Etymology

Origin of grease cup

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

When I was younger, I sat between my mother/older cousin/aunt/grandmother’s legs with jar of grease, cup of water, and tin of barrettes at the ready. 

From Scientific American • Mar. 2, 2012

Among the tools, all fashioned from materials in the prison workshops: a blowtorch made from a large grease cup, a brace and bit from pipe parts.

From Time Magazine Archive

After giving the bearing time to cool off, Frank affixed a regular grease cup to it and no difficulty was then experienced in starting up the engine once more.

From The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest by Goldfrap, John Henry

Tom did not answer, but knelt and turned the grease cup, then wiped the nickel surfaces, bent and dented though they were, with a piece of cotton waste.

From Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)

Smaltz kept rolling his head back and forth in an oil-soaked spot where a grease cup leaked.

From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline