Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Top rake

Top rake

(Mechanics) The angle that the front edge of the point of a tool is set back from the normal to the surface being cut.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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