"DejaVU" wrote in message
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Adam Smith scribed in please_look
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On the very oldest samples of these horns, the piston's slots are
lathed, and only the 6 inner ribs hold the rest together. On the
^^^^^^^
crumbs, I thought only my 6 year old son said that!
the term is 'turned' in a lathe. lathe is a noun....

It's also a transitive verb, although we very rarely hear it used that way
in metalworking. It was used more often in the early part of the last
century to refer to decorative turned woodwork.

Ed Huntress