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Definition lathe

Etymology 1

From Middle English lathen, from Old English laţian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-Germanic *laţ?n? (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic lađa (“to attract”).

Verb

lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)

  1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *lath, from Old English l?ţ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”).

Noun

lathe (plural lathes)

  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.

Etymology 3

From Middle English lath (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlađ (“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 hlađa (“to load”). More at lade.

Noun

lathe (plural lathes)

  1. A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
  2. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
  3. (obsolete) A granary; a barn.
Verb

lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)

  1. To shape with a lathe.
  2. (computer graphics) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

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