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lathework

lathework noun: work produced on a lathe.

Noun

lathework (uncountable)

  1. Work produced on a lathe.
    • Indeed, he uses his reportorial talent for description to conjure the glum, shopworn world they inhabit: he notices the linoleum curling at its seams, the fake antique furniture “broken out in pediments and lathework grenades and ornamental buboes,” the old sewing machine “whose plastic had gone...2009 March 24, Michiko Kakutani, “Land of Promise, Home of the Bedeviled and Bewildered”, in New York Times

Origin of lathework

From lathe + -work.

Questions about lathework

What does lathework mean?
Lathework means work produced on a lathe.
What part of speech is lathework?
Lathework is a noun.

Words near lathework in the dictionary

  1. latherwort
  2. lathery
  3. lathes
  4. lathesman
  5. lathesmen
  6. lathework
  7. lathi
  8. lathi nach
  9. lathial
  10. lathials
  11. lathicharge

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