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The military released what it said was drone footage from inside the tunnel, which showed several rooms, a bathroom, rocket casings and a lathe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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

Returning from the lavatory later, he found the word “RAT” written on the side of his lathe.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Customers in Uganda want more tools and equipment, including lathes and water pumps.

From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024

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

“It was full of joiners and had the best tools and lathes to do anything he needed or wanted to do.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023

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

Its walls were lathed but not plastered, and from our apartment we had an extended view of the entire floor.

From The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Mary L. Day

The bare lathed walls were hung with fishing jackets, nets, mackerel lines and other shore appurtenances.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The house was substantially built; the walls formed of strong, upright posts, lathed across, plastered with mud, and whitewashed; and the roof tiled.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

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

Concurrently with this method of heating there is gradually being introduced a practice of using metallic lathing for the plastering of dwelling-rooms in place of the old wooden battens generally employed for lath-and-plaster work.

From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by George Sutherland