motor spirit
English
Noun
- (archaic) gasoline, petrol
- 1962 November, “News in Brief”, in Modern Railways, page 306:
- A new oil traffic in block trainloads, expected to amount to 150,000 tons of refined motor spirit annually for B.R., has begun between the Shell refinery at Stanlow and a new terminal built at Hunslet East in connection with Shell-Mex and B.P.'s expansion scheme at Knostrop, Leeds....
References
- “motor spirit”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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