lathe
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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
When her River Rock lamp, an elegant piece composed of two stacked wooden ovals turned on a lathe, was chosen as a finalist at last year’s Etsy Design Awards, her profile got another boost.
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
Vocabulary lists containing lathe
Mechanical Engineering
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Visual Arts - High School
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