lathe

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 See also 1.6 Anagrams

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

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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.

2. (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.

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

1. To shape with a lathe.

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lath

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of aehlt
• athel