lathe

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

Origin of lathe

Middle English lath, turning lathe, supporting stand, probably from Middle Dutch lade in the same senses (from source Danish dreielad, turning lathe): for Indo-European base see lade

transitive verb

lathed, lath′ing

to shape on a lathe

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lathe

noun

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.

transitive verb

lathed, lath·ing, lathes

To cut or shape on a lathe.

Origin of lathe

Middle English a device used by coopers, perhaps a turning lathe probably of Scandinavian origin

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Verb

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

(UK dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.

Origin

From Middle English lathen, from Old English laÃ¾ian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask"), from Proto-Germanic *laÃ¾ÅnÄ… (“to invite"), from Proto-Indo-European *lÄ“y- (“to want, desire"). Cognate with German laden (“to invite"), Icelandic laÃ°a (“to attract"), Albanian ledhÃ« (“to flatter, spoil, caress").

Noun

(plural lathes)

(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.

Origin

From Middle English *lath, from Old English lÇ£Ã¾ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe").

Noun

(plural lathes)

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 movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.

Verb

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

To shape with a lathe.
(computer graphics) To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

Origin

Middle English lath (“turning-lathe; stand"), from Old Norse hlaÃ° (“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 hlaÃ°a (“to load"). More at lade.