noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A piston destined to shuttle back and forth within a cylinder will be made on a lathe .
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And it comes first for one simple reason: civilization rolls on wheels, and lathes make wheels.
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Holly worked on alone at the lathe that fashioned the chairs' legs.
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It was Bert's private workshop, complete with a lathe and other skilled men's paraphernalia.
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It was not a retrofit, though it was more of an adaptation of a copying lathe than an original design.
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Murdoch had turned his hat on a lathe , thereby inventing a method of turning oval objects.
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Swarf from lathes lay thick on the floor below.