motor spirit

English

Noun

motor spirit (uncountable)

1. (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.