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

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

Monitor :: Monitor (n.) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting..

Turnery :: Turnery (n.) The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.

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

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

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..

Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe..

Automatical :: Automatical (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse..

Center :: Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe..

Carrier :: Carrier (n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.

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..

Turning :: Turning (n.) Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools..

Plathelminth :: Plathelminth (n.) One of the Platyelminthes.

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

Lathed :: Lathed (imp. & p. p.) of Lat.

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..

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

Turner :: Turner (n.) One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe..

Arbor :: Arbor (n.) A mandrel in lathe turning.

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