tailstock
noun
tailstock is a noun meaning “The part of a lathe that supports the object being worked along its rotatory axis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-I-L-S-T-O-C-K, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tailstock is tailstocks.
What does tailstock mean?
noun
- 1
The part of a lathe that supports the object being worked along its rotatory axis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tailstock
- tailstocks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tailstock?
Tailstock appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does tailstock come from?
From tail + stock.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).