lathe

(noun)

A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

Related Terms

  • process

Examples of lathe in the following topics:

  • Mill Towns and Company Towns

    • "In the nineteenth century, saws and axes made in New England cleared the forests of Ohio; New England ploughs broke the prairie sod, New England scales weighed wheat and meat in Texas; New England serge clothed businessmen in San Francisco; New England cutlery skinned hides to be tanned in Milwaukee and sliced apples to be dried in Missouri; New England whale oil lit lamps across the continent; New England blankets warmed children by night and New England textbooks preached at them by day; New England guns armed the troops; and New England dies, lathes, looms, forges, presses and screwdrivers outfitted factories far and wide. " - Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, 1969
  • Wood

    • There are many different tools that can be used, such as carving knives, lathes, chainsaws, gouges, and chisels.
  • Classifying Business Products

    • This category would include the physical plant of a manufacturer (boilers, lathes, blast furnaces, elevators, and conveyor systems).
  • Business Products

    • This category would include boilers, lathes, blast furnaces, elevators, and conveyor systems.
  • Gender and Research

    • (Turret lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.)
  • Process decisions

    • Equipment and labor can be organized into departments such as drilling, punch press, lathe, machining, painting, heat treating, molding, etc.
  • The Working Woman

    • Some even held jobs as ship riggers, teamsters, turpentine laborers, brass founders/workers, shingle and lathe makers, stock-herders, gunsmiths and locksmiths, and hunters and trappers.
  • Productivity Gains from Hardware

    • Historically important machine tools are the screw-cutting lathe, milling machine, and metal planer (metalworking), which all came into use between 1800 and 1840.
  • Organizational stages of growth

    • The grouping of all milling machines into one department or the placing of lathes in another department is illustrative of departmentation by equipment or process.
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