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- 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 - n. - A granary; a barn.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lathed - imp. & p. p. - of Lath
- Lather - n. - Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
- Lather - n. - Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
- Lather - n. - To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
- Lather - v. i. - To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
- Lather - v. t. - To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.
- Lathered - imp. & p. p. - of Lather
- Lathereeve - n. - Alt. of Lathreeve
- Lathering - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Lather
- Broad - n. - A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- Swing - v. t. - To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
- Lay - v. t. - The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
- 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.
- Arbor - n. - A mandrel in lathe turning.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Turning - n. - Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
- Heddle - n. - One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.
- Shears - n. - The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe.
- Rensselaerite - n. - A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles.
- 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.
- Pedal - a. - A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.
- Whisket - n. - A small lathe for turning wooden pins.
- Headstock - n. - The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock.