A bat maker is someone who uses a LATHE and a hammer to craft bats for sports such as baseball and cricket. A LATHE is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis. The term 'LATHE' is derived from the Latin word for 'to turn'. A hammer is a tool consisting of a weighted head fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. The term 'HIT' is used to describe the action of striking an object with a hammer. Bat makers use these two tools to shape and form the bats they make.