gibbed lathe
English
Noun
gibbed lathe (plural gibbed lathes)
- (archaic) An engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gibbed lathe under gib in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)