slide rest

British  

noun

1. engineering a stack of platforms that sits on a lathe saddle and carries a tool post, and is adjustable in rotation and at right angles by a lathe operator

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Example Sentences

The Americans had no choice but to leave trails in the snow as unambiguous as diagrams in a book on ballroom dancing—step, slide, rest—step, slide, rest.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

In the figure a is a frame to be fastened in the slide rest tool post at the stem a′.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

The live spindle thus driven has a face plate at the left-hand end, whereon work may be chucked to be operated upon by a tool in the compound slide rest shown on the cylindrical column.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Measure the diameter of the slide rest seat, and scribe on a flat surface a circle of corresponding diameter.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

This may be obviated by letting the cross slide be the lower one as in the English form of slide rest shown in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua