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Definition of lathe

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Lathe (n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten..

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Tailstock :: Tailstock (n.) The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle..

Saponin :: Saponin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type..

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..

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

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

Lathereeve :: Lathereeve (n.) Alt. of Lathreev.

Lather :: Lather (n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..