lathework

Etymology

From lathe + -work.

lathework means work produced on a lathe. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

noun

Work produced on a lathe.“Indeed, he uses his reportorial talent for description to conjure the glum, shopworn world they inhabit: he notices the linoleum curling at its seams, the fake antique furniture “broken out in pediments and lathework grenades and ornamental buboes,” the old sewing machine “whose plastic had gone yellow.””