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lathe

verb, noun — 7 senses

lathe

verb

US /leɪð/

Etymology From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn, from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).

1

UK, Dialectal To invite; bid; ask.

lathe

noun

Etymology From Middle English *lath, leth, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāþ.

1

Obsolete An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.

lathe

noun

Etymology From Middle English lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”)—compare dialectal Danish lad (“stand, support frame”) (as in drejelad (“turning-lathe”), savelad (“saw bench”)), dialectal Norwegian la, lad (“pile, small wall”), dialectal Swedish lad (“folding table, lay of a loom”)—from hlaða (“to load”). More at lade.

1

Arts, Business, Carpentry, Construction, Crafts, Engineering, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Metalworking, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Tools, Woodworking A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

  • He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.
  • The accidental amputation was due to the guard not being on the lathe.
1 more example
  • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe, whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.
2

Business, Manufacturing, Textiles, Weaving The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.

3

Obsolete A granary; a barn.

  • […]lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’2008 [1894], Walter William Skeat, Notes on The Canterbury Tales. Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 5, page 124:
Derived terms
engine lathe, wheel lathe, Blanchard lathe, cryolathe, duplex lathe, gap lathe, geometric lathe, gibbed lathe, lapidary's lathe, lathe carrier, latheless, lathelike, latheman, lathesman, lathework, pole lathe, throw lathe, turret lathe

lathe

verb

Etymology From Middle English lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”)—compare dialectal Danish lad (“stand, support frame”) (as in drejelad (“turning-lathe”), savelad (“saw bench”)), dialectal Norwegian la, lad (“pile, small wall”), dialectal Swedish lad (“folding table, lay of a loom”)—from hlaða (“to load”). More at lade.

1

To shape with a lathe.

2

Computer graphics, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

Related terms
lath, turner

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