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c. 1440.  Jacob’s Well, 260. As a carte-qweel, drye & vngrecyd, cryeth lowdest of oþere qwelys.

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1663.  Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. V. xiv. 250. The grating of an ungreased oartwheele upon the axle-tree.

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1663.  Shadwell, Sullen Lovers, IV. What a vile noise he makes, worse than … a coach-wheel ungreas’d.

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1783.  Latham, Gen. Syn., IV. 687. Having a creaking harsh kind of note, somewhat like … an ungreased axle-tree.

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a. 1894.  Stevenson, Lay Morals, etc. (1911), 247. A creaking of ungreased axles had been heard.

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