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Definition of Headstocks
1. headstock [n] - See also: headstock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headstocks
Literary usage of Headstocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lockwood's Dictionary of Terms Used in the Practice of Mechanical by Joseph Gregory Horner (1892)
"... and in the back centres of the headstocks of lathes. The bearing end of a
thrust screw may be either flat, or conical in form, and is always hardened. ..."
2. Pattern Making: A Practical Treatise Embracing the Main Types of Engineering by Joseph Gregory Horner (1885)
"—headstocks. THERE are two ways of making lathe beds: one is to construct the
pattern like the casting, leaving certain parts loose, and giving due taper ..."
3. Lathe Design for High- and Low-speed Steels: A Treatise on the Kinematical by John Thomas Nicolson, Dempster Smith (1908)
"... CHAPTER XXXVII LOOSE headstocks TFIE function of the loose headstock is twofold.
In addition to providing a support to the end of the job it must be ..."
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