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 Literature

Back rest, a guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work, to steady it in turning.-

From Project Gutenberg

The self-acting lathe, or engine lathe, implying that there is a slide rest actuated automatically to traverse the tool to its cut or feed.

From Project Gutenberg

When a piece of work is rotated between the lathe centres its axis of rotation may be represented by an imaginary straight line and the lower slides must, to obtain parallel work, be set parallel to this straight line, while for taper work the slide rest must be set at an angle to it.

From Project Gutenberg

These are usually provided with a feed motion for traversing the slide rest in the direction of the length of the bed, and sometimes with a self-acting cross feed, that is to say, a feed motion that will traverse the tool to or from the line of centres and at a right angle to the same.

From Project Gutenberg