| MANDREL | Rotating shaft, as on a lathe |
| WELLDONEE | One given a water shaft as a gift? |
| STEEPLES | Cross-timbers in a shaft as supports or steps (8) |
| TURNER | Artist who worked on a lathe? |
| TURNING | Ring nut made on a lathe (7) |
| TURNS | Shapes on a lathe |
| TURN | Giddy spell one can produce on a lathe (4) |
| TURNERY | The art of shaping wood on a lathe |
| PROPELLER | Mechanical device of a rotating shaft and blades producing a force to move a craft (9) |
| CAM | Disk mounted on a rotating shaft |
| CAPSTAN | Rotating shaft in a tape recorder (7) |
| SPINDLE | A turntable's central rod for holding a record; a spike used with a distaff for hand-spinning yarn; or, a baluster, chair leg or other piece of wood turned with a lathe (7) |
| THROW | Word used to mean cast/roll dice, form pottery on a wheel, give a party, lob a ball, lose a horseshoe, turn with a lathe or twist yarn together (5) |
| AXEL | Noise of rotating shaft could make one jump |
| AXLE | Rotating shaft (4) |
| CRANK | Rotating shaft with handle (5) |
| ARBOR | Latin word for a tree, used in scientific contexts to refer to a trunk-like axle, beam, mandrel, shaft or spindle in a machine or a lathe (5) |
| CHUCK | A device that holds a workpiece in a lathe or tool in a drill (5) |
| SADDLE | An equestrian settle to which a col, a cut of hare/lamb/mutton, an earthworm's clitellum, a fowl's back, a lathe's carriage and many other seat-like things are likened (6) |
| BELT | Endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys (4) |
