From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn, from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).
From Middle English *lath, leth, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāþ.
Meanings
(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.
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.
Meanings
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.
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.
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
(obsolete) 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’ 2008 [1894], Walter William Skeat, Notes on The Canterbury Tales. Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 5, page 124:
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ru тока́рный стано́к (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · cmn 鏇床 /旋床 (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · ja レース (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · es torno (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · de Drehbank (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · ja 旋盤 (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · ro strung (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · az tornaçı dəzgahı (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · hi खराद (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · ru стано́к (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · tr torna (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · hy խառատահաստոց (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · mi hurimau (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · is rennibekkur (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · hu eszterga (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · uk стано́к (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · be варшта́т (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · gl torno (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · sv svarvstol (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · mi paetārai (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · lb Dréibänk (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · nb dreiebenk (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · de Drehmaschine (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · sl stružnica (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · ota طورنو (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · cmn 車床 /车床 (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · uk тока́рня (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · eo tornomaŝino (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · cmn 镟床 (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · pl tokarka (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · eu tornu (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · fi sorvi (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · pdt Dreibenkj (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · id bubut (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · el τόρνος (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · be така́рны стано́к (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · bg ватал (swing frame on a loom — see also beater, batten) · pl listwa (swing frame on a loom — see also beater, batten) · uk верста́т (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · de Drehstuhl (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · th เครื่องกลึง (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · cy turn (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · he מַחְרֵטָה (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · bg струг (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · be така́рны варшта́т (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · sh strugalica (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · crh torna (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · da drejebænk (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · la tornus (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · de Holzdrehmaschine (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · nl draaibank (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · uk тока́рний стано́к (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · my တွင်ခုံ (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · bg вътел (swing frame on a loom — see also beater, batten) · lv virpa (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · arz مخرطة (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · ar مِخْرَطَة (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · fr tour (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · nn dreiebenk (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · uk тока́рний верста́т (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · bg вътъл (swing frame on a loom — see also beater, batten) · az tokar dəzgahı (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · de Drechselbank (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · ko 선반 (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · hu esztergapad (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · mk дребунг (machine tool used to shape a piece of material) · cs soustruh (machine tool used to shape a piece of material)
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.
Meanings
To shape with a lathe.
To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
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