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

A pointer held in the slide rest, and applied as in Fig.

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

As a result, the slide rest is caused to advance to and recede from the line of lathe centres when the cam depression passes the tracer point, the weight w maintaining contact between the two.

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

The pointer should be soft, and not a cutting tool, unless indeed it be set so high in the slide rest that it cannot cut.

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

A slide rest for turning spherical work is shown in Fig.

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