lathe

A farmer who owned a Model T didn’t need a forge or metal lathe to fix his engine; he could simply order a replacement part—or cannibalize one from a wrecked car in a junkyard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

To do the work, the team used a large lathe to spin a detached brake rotor and caliper.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024

But there is a wooden cross that Jimmy Carter fashioned in his woodshop and offering plates that he turned on his lathe.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

Standing on a blanket of sawdust in the Los Angeles Fashion District woodshop she shares with two other woodworkers, Julie Jackson puts on a protective face shield and turns on her lathe.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2023

Shin’s father, Shin Gyung Sub, told Shin that guards gave him Jang as payment for his skill in operating a metal lathe in the camp’s machine shop.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

The workrooms contained metal lathes, hand tools and grey casings, but it was not possible to verify what had been made there.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023

On the day Shapiro practiced the moiré pattern, an industrial clamor emanated from an adjacent room that houses CNC mills and CNC lathes, which are used to fabricate watch components.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023

There, Mr. Brush turned his focus to metals and jewels, crossing artistic boundaries with a steadily growing collection of antique lathes and tools.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022

Powerful lathes grind blocks of steel into sharp-toothed gears and screws.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022

Mrs. Coulter, on the other hand, was not like any female Scholar Lyra had seen, and certainly not like the two serious elderly lathes who were the other female guests.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

The crucible was lathed out of a solid block of graphite, a form of carbon which conducts electricity well.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a smell of lubrication and lathed brass.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Entire ceiling to be lathed with high-rib metal lath securely nailed directly to ceiling joists.

From The Fairfax County Courthouse by Ross De Witt Netherton

The home consisted of one large room, not yet lathed and plastered.

From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The second story was divided into about twenty rooms, the partitions being lathed but 6 not yet plastered.

From Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full by Clifford Carleton

They talked amid the exposed plaster lathing for nearly an hour, then for half an hour more in the street out front.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017

For the first six to eight months, I worked at lathing the bottoms of cymbals.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2016

The painting is moving and I’m kind of standing still like a workman on his lathe, lathing a piece of wood.

From Forbes ● Sep. 24, 2014

The walls were stripped down to their lathing, and the new plaster was hand-buffed with beeswax, creating a sheen that, as Ms. Spellman points out, “looks incredible in candlelight.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2010

In another room, a shell had sprayed the ceiling, so we had to pull the plaster down to the bare lathing.

From Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason