lathe
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
lathe (lathes, present participle lathing; past and past participle lathed)
Nounlathe (plural lathes)
- (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.
lathe (plural lathes)
- 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.
- 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; a lay, or batten.
- (obsolete) A granary; a barn.
- French: tour
- German: Drechselbank, Drehbank, Drehmaschine, Drehstuhl, Holzdrehmaschine (for processing wood)
- Italian: tornio
- Portuguese: torno
- Russian: тока́рный стано́к
- Spanish: torno
lathe (lathes, present participle lathing; past and past participle lathed)
- To shape with a lathe.
- (computer graphics) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
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