lathe . ( Of the lat. )( tornus, and this of the g t?, giro, vuelta). 1. m. simple machine consisting of a prepared cylinder to rotate around its axis by the action of levers, storks or wheels, and ordinarily acts on the resistance by means of a rope that goes rolling blunders into the cylinder. 2. m. rotating frame composed of several vertical boards present in a shaft, and circular a floor and a ceiling which is in line with the hole in a wall and is used to pass objects from one part to another, without that will be the people who give or receive, and closures, in the houses of foundlings and in the dining rooms. 3. m. machine which, by means of a wheel, Stork, etc., makes giving something turns on itself, as a serving for spinning, twisting silk, reel, making works of pottery, etc. 4. m. machine to carve out into round pieces of wood, metal, bone, etc. 5. m. electric instrument consisting of a bar with a rotating piece at its end, used by dentists to clean and iron out the teeth. 6. m. tourniquet (? device so that people become one by one). 7. m. brake of some carriages, to be managed a. with a handle. 8. m. back around, circular motion or rodeo. 9. m. bend which forms the bed of a river and in which takes normally much force the flow. 10. m. Der. Action to the award of the auction, in leases of rents, the bidder that offers greater advantages immediately after the other that it had first and not given within the stipulated bail. lathe parallel. 1. m. That the tool moves in direction parallel to the axis of the piece that bores, and serves for Threading. lathe revolver. 1. m. Mec. lathe automatic or semi-automatic with a revolver to change tools. a lathe . 1. loc. Advisor. about (? approximately). 2. loc. adj. turning (? made with a lathe ). en lathe a. 1. loc. prepos. about. 2. loc. prepos. approaches of. en lathe de. 1. loc. prepos. about.