lathe
noun
- machine tool which rotates the workpiece on its axis
verb
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Pronunciation: /leɪð/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English lathe (“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.
- 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.”
“The accidental amputation was due to the guard not being on the lathe.”
- The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
- A granary; a barn.
“[…]lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English lathe (“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.
- To shape with a lathe.
- To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.