Lathe is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LATHE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to shape or cut on a type of machine
• shape with a lathe
• shape, bore, or cut a screw thread in or on (a workpiece) on a lathe
NOUN:
• a machine for turning wood, metal etc.
• a machine for shaping wood, metal, or other material by means of a rotating drive which turns the piece being worked on against changeable cutting tools.
• machine for turning wood or metal while it is being shaped
• 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.
• A granary; a barn.
• 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.
• 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.
• machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cut or shape on a type of machine

Words related to LATHE

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Words that contain LATHE

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How to use LATHE in a sentence

• He turns wooden utensils in a lathe for exercise, and fancies he can turn men in the same manner.
• Then the grinding scrape of sharp steel on iron as the edge of the tool cuts shavings from the solid metal rotating swiftly in the lathe.
• He must then learn to file and turn, and to make use of the finishing lathe with the bow, or of the foot lathe.
• Both can earn more money than each could earn separately, and the skilled man who formerly worked the second lathe is released.
• He and his cousin had quarreled, somewhat bitterly, over money, and about his refusal to give up work on his electric lathe.
• You know he was working on an electric lathe he hoped to patent.
• Any operator can make a suitable wheel on the same plan of a turning lathe.
• A quantity of emery was now strewn over the plates, and the lathe set in motion.
• It works perfectly, and I think it the best lathe made in the world for Bedstead and Chair work.
• I would recommend it to any one desirous of obtaining such a lathe.
• One of the interesting tools was a lathe for turning chair posts.
• He had a variety of tools, and a lathe for turning chair-posts.
• For piston rods, or for work such as cutting jack screws, this lathe is very useful.
• Can weights, springs, or water from a tank be used to any advantage to run a lathe? A.
• A very slight cut was taken in the lathe afterwards to true the circumference.
• A piece of brass rod was clamped in the chuck of a lathe, and a depression made in the end slightly eccentric, by means of a center punch.
• The lathe is started and the gear blank fed on the cutter slowly until the tooth is cut.
• The uses to which this wonderful machine can be put would be too numerous to describe, but there is hardly a mechanical operation in which the turning lathe does not figure.
• The supports are then removed and the solder turned up in a lathe, or otherwise finished.
• The shaft with the core is then put in a lathe and the outside turned off to the proper size.
• A small metal turning or drilling lathe can be purchased for a few dollars and operated by hand for the boring, or a common hand drill can be used.
• One gentleman, who was running a lathe of this kind, motioned for me to come up and sit by his side on a low stool.
• However, to make sure, they crouched behind the lathe and a huge plank of beautiful mahogany Hope was very proud of.
• I look at the lathe painted to look like iron, and I set over against him Parnell.
• The pots are fashioned by hand with the aid of a round stone and are so wonderfully symmetrical that they resemble those made on a lathe.
• He had a peculiar aptitude for the lathe, and some of his bread-plates were really as neatly executed as any that could be seen in London.
• After the boring of the barrel, it is placed in a lathe, and the outside turned down to the proper size.

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