An ancient form of lathe operated by a treadle, in which the work is turned by a cord passing round it and rotated back by the action of a springy pole or sapling attached to the top end.
脚踏车床，足踏木车床
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Little grind stones roughly only five inches in diameter could be mounted on pole lathes to turn them, but larger stones would have had a man or men to turn it rapidly.
Some finds of worked wood from York have suggested that the pole lathe was the most likely way that they made turned items such as cups.
Farm Carpentry will be a selection of woodworking tasks performed on the farm: tree felling, sawing, splitting, riving, turning on a pole lathe, boring with a boring machine and various types of augers.
Lienhard is working with a pole lathe, but the artist has not shown a tool rest to support the chisel.
A beetle and froe were used for cleaving the sawn pieces, then a hatchet and drawshave were needed to roughly shape the lengths of wood; finally a pole lathe and various turning chisels finished off the work.
When we were finished in the rotunda, we went outside to a tent under which two treadle lathes were set up-a pole lathe and a bow lathe-both reproductions made by fellow member Mike Podmaniczky from those in the Dominy shop.