slide rest

noun

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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Historical Examples of slide rest

The disc is, of course, mounted on the mandrel, and the work on the slide-rest.
On Laboratory Arts
Richard Threlfall
The device employed in a slide-rest to grip the cutting tool.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II
Joshua Rose
Following the invention of the lathe and the slide-rest, came the metal-planing machines.
Inventions in the Century
William Henry Doolittle
Any modern worker is spared this labour and worry by the device known as the Slide-Rest.
The Romance of Modern Mechanism
Archibald Williams
By means of the slide-rest the negative may be moved up or down to any desired position.
Photography in the Studio and in the Field
Edward M. Estabrooke