lathe

Example Sentences

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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

Autumn, who has been working on a machine that resembles a large lathe — a ringer, which generates telephone rings — passes De Jaen and the rectifier.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

The Light Gas Gun at the University of Kent is an unwieldy device which, to me, looks more like a lathe than a gun.

From BBC • May 18, 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