machine tool

A machine in which the tool is directed by guides and automatic appliances. It is a workshop appliance for operating upon materials in the way of shaping and dre ing, having devices for dogging the stuff and feeding the tool. Among tools of this cla for working in metal may be enumerated the lathe and machines for planing, Machine-tools for wood are lathes, saws of various slotting, shaping, drilling, punching, and shearing, kinds, machines for planing, molding, boring, mortising, dovetailing, rabbeting, tenoning, shaping. . machine-work, s. Work done by a machine or machinery, as distinguished from that done by manual labor.