lathe

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a machine that rotates a workpiece to shape it with cutting tools

   He turned the chair leg on a lathe until it was perfectly smooth.

Of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse hlaða ('to load, pile up') or a Scandinavian word meaning 'supporting frame'; the modern sense of the turning machine dates from the late Middle Ages.

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