lathe
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From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-Germanic *laþōnan (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).
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lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.
[edit] Etymology 2
From Middle English *lath, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”).
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lathe (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.
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Middle English lath 'turning-lathe; stand', from Old Norse hlað 'pile, heap' (cf. Danish dialect lad 'stand, support frame' (as in drejelad 'turning-lathe', savelad 'saw bench'), Norwegian dialect la, lad 'pile, small wall', Swedish dialect lad 'folding table, lay of a loom'), from hlaða 'to load'. More at lade.
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lathe (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.
- 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.
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lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)
- To shape with a lathe.
