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lathe

Pronunciation: /leɪð/

The English word “lathe” has 7 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To invite; bid; ask.
  2. To shape with a lathe.
  3. To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

noun

  1. 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.
  2. A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
  3. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
  4. A granary; a barn.

Etymology

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”).

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