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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slide rest

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

It is provided with the usual self-acting feed motion and also with a compound slide rest.

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

If the lathe bed has raised Vs there are usually provided two special Vs for the tailblock to slide on, the slide rest carriage sliding on two separate ones.

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

A cross slide is provided to the tailstock, and upon this slide the head of the tailstock is pivoted so as to bore taper holes; the tailstock thus virtually becomes a compound slide rest.

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

A compound slide rest has above the cross slide, a second slide carrying the tool holder, this second slide pivoting to stand at any required angle, as in Fig.

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