Lathe
WordNet
noun
(1) Machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
- He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.
- An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.