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

Or looked down at the raw concrete underfoot, or around at unadorned columns and brick walls that never were meant to be seen, sheathed originally with lathe and plaster and decorative molding?

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

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

I turned the lathe on and it whirred up to speed.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

Rats running electric motors that ran belts that ran small circular saws, lathes, drills, grindstones, and other tools Mrs. Frisby could not name; rats hammering, welding, cutting.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

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

They found a side doorway of one structure wide open, and stepped into a lathed but unplastered hallway.

From The Mystery at Putnam Hall The School Chums' Strange Discovery by Edward Stratemeyer

It was considered a great advance and a matter of proper pride when the settlers had the meeting-house "lathed on the inside, and so daubed and whitened over workmanlike."

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle

Though it might have been better business for the shop if I'd found her a crumbling ruin here, than lathed and plastered in this fashion, over there!

From Under the Redwoods by Bret Harte

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

The outer walls of a stone house should always be firred off inside for lathing and plastering, to keep them thoroughly dry.

From Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen