ball turning

noun

, Furniture.

1. the turning of arms or legs on furniture to make them resemble a continuous row of balls.

Example Sentences

All nature will be struggling and dying, with the sun a red ball turning dark like a cooling ember.

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Rifles should not be too deeply indented; only so much as to prevent the ball turning round within the barrel.

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A simple attachment for ball turning in an ordinary lathe is shown in Fig. 1253.

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The Gate Table on the same page with eight legs is a good example of ball turning.

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