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torno
A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays fr…
He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.
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