lathe

See also lath

English

Wikipedia

A lathe.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: lāth IPA: /leɪð/, X-SAMPA: /leID/

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• Rhymes: -eɪð

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• laith

Verb

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

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

Etymology 2

From Middle English *lath, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”).

Alternative forms

• lath

Noun

lathe (plural lathes)

1. (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.

Etymology 3

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.

Noun

lathe (plural lathes)

1. 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.

   • 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.

2. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
3. (obsolete) A granary; a barn.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Translations

machine tool used to shape a piece of material

• Armenian: խառատահաստոց (hy) (xaṙatahastoc')
• Bulgarian: струг (bg) (strúg) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車床 (cmn), 车床 (cmn) (chēchuáng)

• Czech: soustruh (cs) m
• Dutch: draaibank
• Esperanto: tornomaŝino (eo)
• Finnish: sorvi (fi)
• French: tour (fr) m
• German: Drechselbank (de) f, Drehbank (de) f, Drehmaschine (de) f, Drehstuhl (de) m, Holzdrehmaschine (de) f (for processing wood)
• Hebrew: מחרטה (he) f
• Hungarian: esztergapad (hu)
• Icelandic: rennibekkur (is) m

• Italian: tornio (it) m
• Japanese: 旋盤 (ja) (せんばん, senban)
• Korean: 선반 (ko) (seonban) (旋盤 (ko))
• Macedonian: струг (mk) (strúg) m, дребунг (mk) (drébung) m
• Norwegian: dreiebenk (no)
• Polish: tokarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: torno (pt) m
• Russian: токарный станок (ru) (tokárnyj stanók) m, станок (ru) (stanók) m
• Serbian: strugalica f, strug m
• Slovene: stružnica f
• Spanish: torno (es) m
• Swedish: drejskiva (sv), slagbom (sv), svarv (sv) c, svarvstol (sv)
• Turkish: torna (tr)

Verb

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

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

Translations

to shape with a lathe

• Czech: soustružit (cs)
• Dutch: draaien (nl)
• Finnish: sorvata (fi)
• French: tourner (fr)

• German: drehen (de)
• Japanese: 削る (ja) (kezuru)
• Macedonian: струга (mk) (strúga), струже (mk) (strúže)
• Spanish: tornear (es)

See also

• lath
• turner

Anagrams

• athel