lathe

sorvi puhekieltä To invite; bid; ask.
puhekieltä An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.

Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe, whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.

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