noun
lathe
machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
In a sentence
Six example sentences with lathe, each labelled with its topic.
The sculptor keeps a small lathe in the corner, and every pedestal under her bronze figures was cut on it.
Art
A computer controlled lathe can hold a tolerance of two microns, which no operator working by eye ever matched.
Technology
Factory owners bought a second lathe only when the order book guaranteed two shifts, since the equipment idled expensively otherwise.
Economics
The flute maker turns each wooden body on a lathe, then bores the center before drilling a single tone hole.
Music
Maudslay's screw cutting lathe of 1800 let machinists make identical parts, and the factory system grew from that precision.
History
The hardware startup began with a secondhand lathe in a garage, turning prototype parts the founders could not afford to order.
Startups
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