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Gear :: Gear (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe..

Reed :: Reed (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten..

Flathead :: Flathead (n.) A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1..

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..

Treadle :: Treadle (n.) The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot..

Lathered :: Lathered (imp. & p. p.) of Lathe.

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) A granary; a barn.

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3..

Mandrel :: Mandrel (n.) A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor..

Driver :: Driver (n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier..

Plathelminthes :: Plathelminthes (n. pl.) Same as Platyelminthes.

Calipers :: Calipers (n. pl.) An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses..

Soapwort :: Soapwort (n.) A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet..

Lathering :: Lathering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lathe.

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool..

Flatworm :: Flatworm (n.) Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians..

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

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..

Comb :: Comb (n.) A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser..

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