LATHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lathe mean? 

• LATHE (noun)
  The noun LATHE has 1 sense:

1. machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool

  Familiarity information: LATHE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lathe" is a kind of...):

shaper; shaping machine (a machine tool for shaping metal or wood)

Meronyms (parts of "lathe"):

carriage (a machine part that carries something else)

chuck (a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill)

handwheel (control consisting of a wheel whose rim serves as the handle by which a part is operated)

handwheel (a wheel worked by hand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lathe"):

bench lathe (lathe mounted on a workbench)

 Context examples 

Then he took the skulls and put them in the lathe and turned them till they were round.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Hermann von Schmidt chuckled in his little repair shop and decided to order a new lathe.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he answered: “Then I ask for a fire, a turning lathe, and a cutting-board with the knife.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When night was drawing near, the youth went up and made himself a bright fire in one of the rooms, placed the cutting-board and knife beside it, and seated himself by the turning-lathe.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)