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Chuck :: Chuck (n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon..

Live :: Live (a.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe..

Plathelminth :: Plathelminth (n.) One of the Platyelminthes.

Tailstock :: Tailstock (n.) The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle..

Mandrel :: Mandrel (n.) A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor..

Turning :: Turning (n.) Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools..

Arbor :: Arbor (n.) A mandrel in lathe turning.

Lathed :: Lathed (imp. & p. p.) of Lat.

Whisket :: Whisket (n.) A small lathe for turning wooden pins.

Puppet :: Puppet (n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.

Lather :: Lather (n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.

Center :: Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe..

Shears :: 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..

Flatworm :: Flatworm (n.) Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians..

Turnery :: Turnery (n.) The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.

Saponin :: Saponin (n.) A poisonous glucoside found in many plants, as in the root of soapwort (Saponaria), in the bark of soap bark (Quillaia), etc. It is extracted as a white amorphous powder, which occasions a soapy lather in solution, and produces a local anaesthesia. Formerly called also struthiin, quillaiin, senegin, polygalic acid, etc. By extension, any one of a group of related bodies of which saponin proper is the type..

Headstock :: 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..

Lathereeve :: Lathereeve (n.) Alt. of Lathreev.

Tailpin :: Tailpin (n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

Broad :: Broad (n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

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