drawbench

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In wire-drawing, a machine in which wire is reduced in size or brought to gage by being drawn through openings of standard size. See drawing-bench and drawing-block.

Wiktionary

1. n. A machine in which long pieces of metal are drawn through a drawplate, die, or series of dies, to change the shape, size, cross-sectional area, physical properties, or surface finish of the metal.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Med.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.