Word Meanings - TAILSTOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.

• Blocking course
  The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• Lathered
  of Lather
• Spindle-legged
  Having long, slender legs.
• Supportment
  Support.
• LATHEREEVELATHREEVE
  Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.
• Blockish
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
• Lathering
  of Lather
• Spindlelegs
  A spindleshanks.
• Supportress
  A female supporter.
• SLIDDERSLIDDERLYSLIDDERY
  Slippery. [Obs.] To a drunk man the way is slidder. Chaucer.
• Adjustable
  Capable of being adjusted.
• Blocklike
  Like a block; stupid.
• Lathereeve
  Alt. of Lathreeve
• Spindle-shanked
  Having long, slender legs.
• SLIDEWAY
  A way along which something slides.
• Block tin
  See under Tin.
• Spindleshanks
  A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.

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