Lathe

/leɪð/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, UK dialectal) To invite; bid; ask..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.
2. (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.
3. (tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
4. (weaving) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
5. (obsolete) A granary; a barn.
6. To shape with a lathe.
7. (computer graphics) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

Example Sentences

He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.

The accidental amputation was due to the guard not being on the lathe.

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.

[…]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’

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• lathes
• lathing
• lathed
• laith
• lath

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