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Lather :: Lather (n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

Tailpin :: Tailpin (n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

Hob :: Hob (n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc..

Way :: Way (n.) The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves..

Mandrel :: Mandrel (n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

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

Screw-cutting :: Screw-cutting (a.) Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe..

Soap :: Soap (n.) A substance which dissolves in water, thus forming a lather, and is used as a cleansing agent. Soap is produced by combining fats or oils with alkalies or alkaline earths, usually by boiling, and consists of salts of sodium, potassium, etc., with the fatty acids (oleic, stearic, palmitic, etc.). See the Note below, and cf. Saponification. By extension, any compound of similar composition or properties, whether used as a cleaning agent or not..

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..

Chinook :: Chinook (n.) One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians..

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

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

Live :: Live (a.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe..

Chaser :: Chaser (n.) A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe..

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..

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

Rensselaerite :: Rensselaerite (n.) A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles..

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

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

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

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