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Definition of Lubes
1. lube [v] - See also: lube
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lubes
Literary usage of Lubes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"flowers mainly sessile, crowded in, a simple or branching »pike : lubes of the
corolla short and less spreading: calyx deeply 5-cleft into 11 ..."
2. The Practical Engineer's Hand-book: Comprising a Treatise on Modern Engines by Walter S. Hutton (1911)
"The length of boiler-lubes averages in marine boilers, twenty-four times their
external diameter. Only the top half of boiler-tubes can ..."
3. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"... with narrow acute lubes: peduncles exceeding the leaves : petals bright rose-color
... lubes ..."
4. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect edited by [Anonymus AC02767386] (1880)
"Between the ends there are no connections, nor are the lubes of the ... The axes
of the corresponding lubes of the fourteen vertical rows are in the same ..."
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