A hellish piece of machinery that if given the chance will kill you if your lucky and grind your face off and rip out your scalp if you're not lucky

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

The lathe is a degrading sexual position to any female who is fucked in the ass/pussy doggystyle, whilst on all fours sucking another dudes cock and at the same time another guy is wanking over top of her. A lathe is very closely related to a spitroast

The orginial term lathe is where a person is hacking into wood that is pivoted on two ends with his chisel. In the sexually degrading version, the chisel is a mans penis and rather than hacking into it he is wanking onto the female. The pivots on two ends are the "traditional spitroast".

There are a few rules assosciated with a lathe:
1. No crossing swords.
2. When eye contact is made a high five must be given.
3. Which dude will recieve the blowjob, which guy will fuck her doggy and which one(s) wank over top, must be prederteremined before the spitroast.
This is to avoid the complicated situations when all males only wish to get oral from a less than average female, or when all wish to fuck a rare 'honey' that can be conned into a lathe.

A typical lathe involves two males pivoting the female on the ends, with one wanking over top. However more males can chip in with the 'lathe' action by wanking over top as well. When this occurs typically they are on opposite sides, and if there are 3 or more males wanking, they can either alternate sides or have a rotation system.