lathe
/leɪð/
verb
- 1
To invite; bid; ask.
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.
noun
- 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.”
- 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
A granary; a barn.
verb
- 1
To shape with a lathe.
- 2
To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
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