DefinitionA <LATHE> is an <ARTEFACT> and a <TOOL> that rotates a workpiece on its axis to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation, facing, turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about an axis of rotation
Derived from Oxford English Dictionary.|A lathe is used chiefly for turning circular and oval work, but it is also used for turning irregular forms and in engraving figure-work and geometrical designs on metal.