bushing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From bush (“metal lining of the axle hole of a wheel or touch hole of a gun”) + -ing.

(3) In all types of transformers, throw carbon, graphite or metal dust over the outside bushings and other exposed electrical parts. — Simple Sabotage Field Manual, United States. Office of Strategic Services
On the contrary side I beheld many of greene adolescency of like proportion to the former, and in suchlike compasse or space, the grounds of both beautified and set foorth with an exquisite foliature or woorke of leaues and flowers, this companie was plucking and gathering of the flowers of sundrye hearbes, and tender bushing stalkes and braunches; and with them diuers faire Nimphes pleasantly deuising, and sportinglie snatching away their gathered flowers,[A] and in such sort as abouesaid vnder the figure were ingrauen certaine capitall letters, to shew this one word AMISSIO, conteyning the ninth part to the Diameter or the quadrature. — Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame, Francesco Colonna

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