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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

Bob chats against the buzzing backdrop of whirring industrial tools and woodwork machines in the next room - a laser cutter, bandsaw, lathe and a 3D printer among them.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024

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 foreman showed Lefty how to take a bearing from the conveyor, grind it on a lathe, and replace it.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

But she could not stop thinking about glass engraving so went to the back door of the Edinburgh College of Art, which had rejected her, to beg to use their lathes.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2023

He also has tiny lathes to machine parts, also as needed.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2022

On Broadway Place, Alan Ishii still draws the lock and chain through his driveway gate at 5:30 a.m., ready to start up the mills and lathes in his shop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2019

Rows of lathes, mills, shapers, and drill presses whined, ground, and hissed at us as O’Dell and I stepped inside.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

The second story was divided into about twenty rooms, the partitions being lathed but 6 not yet plastered.

From Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full by Clifford Carleton

"Yes, once, I think, when steamship passengers lathed at the barge office, and of course I've seen it often in going to Staten Island to visit Cousin Lucretia."

From People of the Whirlpool by Mabel Osgood Wright

Again: They are lathed with cane and plastered with mud from bottom to top, within and without, with a good covering of straw.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke

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 space beneath was about a foot in depth—the lower level being the lathing and plastering of the room below.

From Facing the World by Horatio Alger