rusted

“They are rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all; if I am well oiled I shall soon be all right again.

So she oiled it, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side to side until it worked freely, and then the man could turn it himself.

“I have been holding that axe in the air ever since I rusted, and I’m glad to be able to put it down at last.

However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me.