screw-handle

Updated: June 22, 2025

But the slide rest was much more easily managed, and the result was much more satisfactory. All that the workman had to do, after the tool was firmly fitted into the rest, was merely to turn a screw-handle, and thus advance the cutter along the face of the work as required, with an expenditure of strength so slight as scarcely to be appreciable.

Samuel Smiles - Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers