grease-spot

A great grease-spot, redolent of manures and buttermilk!

Walden 2004

But mark: aloft there, at the three mast heads, stand three men intent on spying out more whales, which, if caught, infallibly will again soil the old oaken furniture, and drop at least one small grease-spot somewhere.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

To measure this light he designed in 1844 another instrument, which in various modifications has come into extensive use -- the grease-spot photometer.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Don't cut it too fat, or you'll flummux by the way, an 'leave nuthin' but a grease-spot.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

When Oliver Goldsmith, after spending more than would pay a modern gentleman's tailor's bill for a couple of years, upon a single coat of cherry-colored velvet, had the misfortune to stain it in a conspicuous place, he was obliged to go on wearing it, and always to hold his hat (in this instance of some use) before the fatal grease-spot.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

It's best not to worry over spilt milk till you see it's made a grease-spot.

Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924

Ah, Mr. Graham, I must confess, it hurts me, it hurts me here, "-- he indicated a grease-spot just below his vest pocket, --" to be separated from that dear child just when she needs me most.

Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

If you know how to use it you can throw your steer and brand it; if you don't, I suppose I won't find much more than a grease-spot where the lard department was, when I get back to the office.

Old Gorgon Graham Lorimer, George H 1903

I never see a filthy yard that I do not want to clean it, a paling off of a fence that I do not want to put it on, an unpainted or unwhitewashed house that I do not want to pain or whitewash it, or a button off one's clothes, or a grease-spot on them or on a floor, that I do not want to call attention to it.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography 1901

I never see a filthy yard that I do not want to clean it, a paling off of a fence that I do not want to put it on, an unpainted or unwhitewashed house that I do not want to paint or whitewash it, or a button off one’s clothes, or a grease-spot on them or on a floor, that I do not want to call attention to it.

The Struggle for an Education 1901