lathe

See also: lath

English

A lathe.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lāth IPA^(key): /leɪð/

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• Rhymes: -eɪð

Etymology 1

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

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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *lath, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

From 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.

Derived terms

• engine lathe

Translations

machine tool used to shape a piece of material

• Arabic: مِخْرَطَة f (miḵraṭa)

  Egyptian Arabic: مخرطة f (maḵraṭa)

• Armenian: խառատահաստոց (hy) (xaṙatahastocʻ)
• Belarusian: стано́к m (stanók), варшта́т (be) m (varštát), така́рны стано́к m (takárny stanók), така́рны варшта́т m (takárny varštát)
• Bulgarian: струг (bg) m (strug)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車床／车床 (zh) (chēchuáng), 车床 (zh) (chēchuáng), 鏇床／旋床 (zh) (xuánchuáng), 镟床 (zh) (xuànchuáng)

• Crimean Tatar: torna
• Czech: soustruh (cs) m
• Danish: drejebænk c
• Dutch: draaibank (nl)
• Esperanto: tornomaŝino
• Finnish: sorvi (fi)
• French: tour (fr) m
• Galician: torno m
• German: Drechselbank (de) f, Drehbank (de) f, Drehmaschine (de) f, Drehstuhl (de) m, Holzdrehmaschine f (for processing wood)
• Greek:

  Ancient: τόρνος m (tórnos)

• Hebrew: מַחְרֵטָה (he) f
• Hindi: खराद (hi) m (kharād)
• Hungarian: esztergapad (hu)
• Icelandic: rennibekkur m
• Irish: deil f
• Italian: tornio (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 旋盤 (せんばん, senban), レース (rēsu)
• Korean: 선반 (ko) (seonban) (旋盤)
• Latgalian: taca
• Latin: tornus m
• Latvian: virpa
• Luxembourgish: Dréibänk f
• Macedonian: струг m (strug), дребунг m (drebung)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dreiebenk m

  Nynorsk: dreiebenk m

• Polish: tokarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: torno (pt) m
• Romanian: strung (ro) n
• Russian: тока́рный стано́к m (tokárnyj stanók), стано́к (ru) m (stanók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: strugalica f, strug (sh) m

• Slovene: stružnica f
• Spanish: torno (es) m
• Swedish: drejskiva (sv), slagbom, svarv (sv) c, svarvstol
• Thai: เครื่องกลึง (krʉ̂ʉang-glʉng)
• Tibetan: དཀྲུག་འཁོར (dkrug 'khor)
• Turkish: torna (tr)
• Ukrainian: тока́рний стано́к m (tokárnyj stanók), тока́рний верста́т (tokárnyj verstát), тока́рня f (tokárnja), стано́к m (stanók), верста́т (uk) m (verstát)
• Welsh: turn (cy) m

Verb

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

Translations

to shape with a lathe

• Bulgarian: струговам (strugovam)
• Czech: soustružit (cs)
• Danish: dreje
• Dutch: draaien (nl)
• Finnish: sorvata (fi)
• French: tourner (fr)
• German: drehen (de), drechseln (de)
• Greek: τόρνος (el) (tórnos)
• Irish: deil
• Japanese: 削る (kezuru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latgalian: tacynuot
• Latvian: virpot
• Macedonian: струга (struga), струже (struže)
• Polish: toczyć (pl) impf, wytoczyć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: tornear (pt)
• Spanish: tornear (es), mandrilar (es)
• Swedish: svarva (sv)
• Thai: กลึง (th) (glʉng)

See also

• lath
• turner

Anagrams

• Leath, athel, ethal, hatel

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”). More at English, Etymology 3, above.

Noun

lathe (plural lathes)

1. a barn to house livestock or store grain, etc.; a storehouse
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reeve’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:

     By Goddes herte, he sal nat scape us bathe!
     Why ne had thow pit the capul in the lathe!

     By God’s heart, he will not escape us both! Why didn’t you put the horse in the barn!