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used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.

th a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.

Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.

work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.

A templet or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel.

the process of jigging. (b) (Metal Working) A machine with a rotary milling cutter and a templet by which the action of the cutter is guided or limited; -- used for forming the profile of an irregularly shaped piece; a profiling machine.

eled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason. The glass of fashion and the mold of form. Shak.

A templet or gauge.

ark. With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet. A. M. Mayer.

A templet; a pattern.

a telescope. To sweep, or sweep up, a mold (Founding), to form the sand into a mold by a templet, instead of compressing it around the pattern.

Same as Templet.