The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LATHE
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More clues leading to the result LATHE
- Turner oil at Hepworth shows
- Machine for turning articles in France and here
- Machine for shaping endless foam
- One used to spin has some control at Headingley
- Hard to block slow spinner
- Turner‘s state of excitement cut short
- Turner in endless panic
- Turner Prize “Leather Zip Undone” failed to secure
- It shapes articles on both sides of the Channel
- Turner is delayed about an hour
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The straight part
We know that "Machine for shaping" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case machine for shaping = lathe.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LATHE mean?
LATHE verb- To invite; bid; ask.
- An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
- A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
- The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
- A granary; a barn.
- To shape with a lathe.
- To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.