: a machine in which work is rotated about a horizontal axis and shaped by a fixed tool
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Sophie Collé, Architectural Digest, 27 Dec. 2024
The young couple married on New Year’s Eve in 1950 and raised their two children in Decatur, where Tuttle worked for A.W. Cash Co. running a turret lathe and other machines.
—Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
To collect grain or operate a lathe was to strike a hammer blow at world imperialism.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
My engineering manager, Shawn, started off in a shop on a lathe at age eighteen and had three kids.
—John Gardner, Fortune, 23 July 2024
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Functional artist Andrew Jacobs was enticed by the wooden sphere by chance: The lathe was the most versatile and cost-saving tool when first building out his shop.
—Sophie Collé, Architectural Digest, 27 Dec. 2024
The young couple married on New Year’s Eve in 1950 and raised their two children in Decatur, where Tuttle worked for A.W. Cash Co. running a turret lathe and other machines.
—Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
To collect grain or operate a lathe was to strike a hammer blow at world imperialism.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
My engineering manager, Shawn, started off in a shop on a lathe at age eighteen and had three kids.
—John Gardner, Fortune, 23 July 2024
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“Lathe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lathe. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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