: a machine in which work is rotated about a horizontal axis and shaped by a fixed tool
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Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
To collect grain or operate a lathe was to strike a hammer blow at world imperialism.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
My engineering manager, Shawn, started off in a shop on a lathe at age eighteen and had three kids.
—John Gardner, Fortune, 23 July 2024
While the structure had been empty for years, timber and lathe were all the fire needed to hollow out the building, which Heggstrom said lacked modern fire-suppression capabilities and fire alarms.
—Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 16 June 2024
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The young couple married on New Year’s Eve in 1950 and raised their two children in Decatur, where Tuttle worked for A.W. Cash Co. running a turret lathe and other machines.
—Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
To collect grain or operate a lathe was to strike a hammer blow at world imperialism.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
My engineering manager, Shawn, started off in a shop on a lathe at age eighteen and had three kids.
—John Gardner, Fortune, 23 July 2024
While the structure had been empty for years, timber and lathe were all the fire needed to hollow out the building, which Heggstrom said lacked modern fire-suppression capabilities and fire alarms.
—Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 16 June 2024
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“Lathe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lathe. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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