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Tool producing French and English articles (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lathe

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'tool' is the definition.
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'french and english articles' is the wordplay.
'french and english' becomes 'l' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'articles' becomes 'athe' (two examples of the part-of-speech: a+the).
'l'+'athe'='LATHE'

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(Other definitions for lathe that I've seen before include "Wood-turning machine" , "This is turned out" , "Turning instrument" , "Turning implement" , "Machine for turning and shaping wood etc" .)

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