lathe
verbEtymology
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.
Definitions
To invite
To invite; bid; ask.
An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period…
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.
A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece…
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.
- The accidental amputation was due to the guard not being on the lathe.
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The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and…
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
A granary
A granary; a barn.
To shape with a lathe.
To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at lathe. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at lathe. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at lathe
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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