noun. A machine for shaping a piece of material, such as wood or metal, by rotating it rapidly along its axis while pressing a fixed cutting or abrading tool against it.

transitive verb. To cut or shape on a lathe.

noun. In England, apart or large division of a county, comprising several hundreds: a term now confined to the county of Kent, in which there are five of these lathes or divisions. See rape.

To invite; bid; ask.

noun. A barn or granary.

A Middle English form of loath.

A Middle English form of loathe.

noun. See sanding-machine.

noun. A machine for working wood, metals, or other substances by causing the material to turn with greater or less speed, according to the nature of the material and the work to be performed, before a tool which is held at rest relatively to the peripheral motion of the object operated upon.

noun. That part of a loom in which the reed is fixed, and by the movements of which the weft-threads are laid parallel to each other, shot after shot, in the process of weaving.

noun. Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent.

noun. A granary; a barn.

noun. A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool.

noun. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten.

noun. a lathe for turning irregular forms after a given pattern, as lasts, gunstocks, and the like.

noun. a small lathe which, from its high speed, is adapted for drilling; a hand lathe.

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noun. a turning lathe in which the cutting tool has an automatic feed; -- used chiefly for turning and boring metals, cutting screws, etc.

noun. a lathe which is driven by a treadle worked by the foot.

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noun. a lathe operated by hand; a power turning lathe without an automatic feed for the tool.

noun. an engine lathe.

noun. a small lathe worked by one hand, while the cutting tool is held in the other.

verb. To invite; bid; ask.

noun. 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. A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

noun. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.

noun. A granary; a barn.

verb. To shape with a lathe.

verb. To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

noun. machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool

"This casting is then placed in an instrument called a _portrait lathe_ (of which we have a very perfect one at the Mint, which I caused to be made at Paris), and reduced fac-similes of it are turned by the lathe, thus preparing for us the dies which we need."

-sanding  back-geared lathe  ball-turning lathe  barrel-turning and -smoothing  beadwork-lathe  

speed lathe  

shaper  shaping machine  

bench lathe  

bathe  nathe  rathe  swathe  

chisel  drill  grinder  saw  shaper  

T square  alembic  anvil  awl  bale breaker  

batten  lath  lay  

lathed  lathes  lathing