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Lubricating oils are something the Allies particularly hate to see leak into Germany.

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Lubricating oil is so scarce that gas-station operators supply only favorite customers.

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Lubricating the entire fault would require enormous amounts of drilling, flooding and pumping.

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Lubricating oil is used almost wholly for the lubrication of heavy machinery.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

The passage of air from A to C depends upon the grinding and lubrication of the joint at C. Lubricating Taps.—For general purposes resin cerate answers very well.

From The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by Shenstone, W. A.