English Explanatory Dictionary

lathe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To invite; bid; ask.
noun
  1. 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
  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.
  3. A granary; a barn.
verb
  1. To shape with a lathe.
  2. To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

Pronunciation

lāth /leɪð/ en-us-lathe.ogg

Word forms

lathe lathes lathing lathed laith lath

Etymology

From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn, from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).

Synonyms

beater batten lay

Related words

lath turner

Derived words

engine lathe wheel lathe Blanchard lathe cryolathe duplex lathe gap lathe geometric lathe gibbed lathe lapidary's lathe lathe carrier latheless lathelike latheman lathesman lathework pole lathe throw lathe turret lathe
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