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Chichling Vetch :: Chichling vetch (n.) A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food..

Spill :: Spill (n.) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

Laying :: Laying (n.) The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.

Throw :: Throw (n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.

Lather :: Lather (v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog..

Lath :: Lath (v. t.) To cover or line with laths.

Swing :: Swing (n.) Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc..

Whisket :: Whisket (n.) A small lathe for turning wooden pins.

Rest :: Rest (n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work..

Center :: Center (n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves..

Tournery :: Tournery (n.) Work turned on a lathe; turnery.

Lathwork :: Lathwork (n.) Same as Lathing.

Partition :: Partition (v.) That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions..

Pricking-up :: Pricking-up (n.) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.

Lathy :: Lathy (a.) Like a lath; long and slender.

Render :: Render (v. t.) To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath..

Lath-shaped :: Lath-shaped (a.) Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections..

Broad :: Broad (n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

Pedal :: Pedal (a.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle..

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