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.

Related words: (words related to TAILSTOCK)

• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• BLOCKISH
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• LATHE
  A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool. 3. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads
• BLOCKING
  1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily.
• SPINDLESHANKS
  A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.
• SLIDE
  1. To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another. 2. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
• BLOCK TIN
  See TIN
• SLIDER
  The red-bellied terrapin . Slider pump, a form of rotary pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
• BLOCK SIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.
• SPINDLEWORM
  The larva of a noctuid mmoth which feeds inside the stalks of corn , sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• SPINDLETAIL
  The pintail duck.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CENTERING
  See 6
• BLOCKAGE
  The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
• SPINDLE
  The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc. The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns. A shaft or pipe on which a
• LATHEREEVE; LATHREEVE
  Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
  Centering in one's self.
• CHOCKABLOCK
  Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.