Definition of "turning-lathe" []

• In ceramics, a lathe used by potters to trim and smooth the surface of the ware, which has been thrown and dried, before it is burned. (noun)
• A lathe used by turners in wood or ivory. See lathe, turn, v. t., 2, turner, turning. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "For six months she saved her egg-money, which was hers by right of allotment, and on his birthday presented him with a turning-lathe of wonderful simplicity and multifarious efficiencies."
• "I mounted a turning-lathe, and in attempting to use it, I very nearly cribbed off, with an inch-and-half former, one of the fingers which the hussar had left me."
• "I said, turning to Fustov, who had already set to work at his turning-lathe."