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Lathe

//leɪð// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. obsolete
  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool wordnet
  4. 4
    The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
  5. 5
    A granary; a barn. obsolete

    "[…]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
  1. 1
    To invite; bid; ask. UK, dialectal, transitive
  2. 2
    To shape with a lathe.
  3. 3
    To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

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.

Etymology 4

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.

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