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qroqqa commented on the word lubricating pit
The old frame house in Columbus and the old sycamore tree that shaded it disappeared a long time ago, and a filling station now stands on the north-west corner of Fifth Street and Walnut Alley, its lubricating pit about where Mrs Albright's garden used to be.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Daguerreotype of a Lady', in The Thurber Album
Very few ghits for this. I suppose I know what it is, but not being a car person, I don't know what the usual name for it would be.
July 10, 2008