Lathe Definition
(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.
- turret lathe
- cutter
- turning lathe
Origin of Lathe
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Middle English lath (“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.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask"), from Proto-Germanic *laþōnÄ… (“to invite"), from Proto-Indo-European *lÄ“y- (“to want, desire"). Cognate with German laden (“to invite"), Icelandic laða (“to attract"), Albanian ledhë (“to flatter, spoil, caress").
From Wiktionary
From Middle English *lath, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe").
From Wiktionary
Middle English a device used by coopers, perhaps a turning lathe probably of Scandinavian origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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