The coppersmith used a lathe to finish shaping the handle for the large pot. From LearnThat.org.
Both can earn more money than each can earn separately, and the skilled man who formerly worked the second lathe is released. From Wordnik.com. [England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend] Reference
They use a machine called a lathe to spin the wood, and special cutting tools to shape it. From Wordnik.com. [Wood Revolution Comes to Washington] Reference
The important things about a lathe are the spindle bearings and the ways for the tool-holder. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
The lathe is a most useful tool for boring purposes, better for some work than the drilling machine itself. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
The lathe was a pleasure to him, and so with bench work, and within ten days a new and larger wagon was turned out. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns] Reference
The lathe is a circular vise that can hold a drill bit or a blade and rotates at a high rate of speed, Mr. Riggs said. From Wordnik.com. [Yale Student Dies in Chemistry-Lab Accident] Reference
The barrel was made on a 'lathe' created out of a large breast drill. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10 - First Escape Date] Reference
The arc of the curved end depends on the kind of lathe and the size of the work. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
The Blanchard lathe for turning irregular forms is here in. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
All that day, I worked with lathe, milling machine and hacksaw. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Bounce] Reference
Hold the graver nearly on a line with the axis of the lathe and catching. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material] Reference
Turn slowly in the lathe and examine with glass to see that it is quite true. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material] Reference
Do not revolve the work all one way, but give the lathe an alternating motion. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material] Reference
This consists of shavings, turned from thin steel discs set together in a lathe. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
So perfect is the form of the cone, that it looks as if it had been turned in a lathe. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
Mr. MELLENCAMP: My original idea was to record on a lathe, but of course they can't. From Wordnik.com. [John Mellencamp: Looking Back While Staying Timeless] Reference
By-and-by he heard a gentle noise; something was creeping up the framework of the lathe. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
When he saw the machinery, the lathe, and, finally, the electric battery, he stood still and gazed. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns] Reference
This he did in his own particular machine shop, which was fitted up with a lathe and other apparatus. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
Blanchard, however, in 1819 gave the finishing stroke, and the lathe will bear his name for long years. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Then one day, without telling him, you sold the 7-inch press and the lathe cutter to a small record company. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorns, Part One] Reference
I made from a solid piece of brass, turning it down in my lathe and finishing the projection by means of a file. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material] Reference
A product that once took 15 minutes to turn by hand now pops out of a computer controlled lathe every few seconds. From Wordnik.com. [German Immigrant Family Makes Iconic American Baseball Bat] Reference
He talked his way into a job by volunteering as a specialist in running a lathe, a machine he had never laid eyes on. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Days Of Auschwitz] Reference
And his nose didn't grow one millimeter when, handling the lathe chisel, he whispered to father that he felt things, too. From Wordnik.com. [Gipetto's Sin] Reference
He learned to run a lathe at a paper mill near the Shandong province capital of Jinan, and he married a Chinese woman in 1957. From Wordnik.com. [Scars No One Sees] Reference
If he could see how shaped, how turned on a lathe of pain were her long arms and legs, how pared down she is by her regimen- . From Wordnik.com. [Prologue] Reference
A cylindrical pin line-shaded; two cylindrical pieces that join each other; a lathe centre; a piece having a curved outline 86. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
In Figures 220 and 221 is a drawing of a connecting rod drawn, put together as it would be for the lathe, vise or erecting shop. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
Whittled down by successive administrations, the big stick now turns on the Obama lathe as it is pressed against the Gates knife. From Wordnik.com. [Hollow Talk in the South China Sea] Reference
Others are made of rare kinds of wood turned in the lathe or artistically carved, and lined with clay to resist the action of fire. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
I will take it for granted that you use an American-made lathe of some kind, or a foreign-made lathe manufactured on American lines. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material] Reference
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