Lathe definitions
A machine for shaping a piece of material, such as wood or metal, by rotating it rapidly along its axis while pressing a fixed cutting or abrading tool against it.
noun
To cut or shape on a lathe.
verb
A machine for shaping an article of wood, metal, etc. by holding and turning it rapidly against the edge of a cutting or abrading tool.
noun
To shape on a lathe.
verb
(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.
noun
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.
noun
To shape with a lathe.
verb
Origin of lathe
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.