lathe

verb
/leɪð/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *lēy-
  2. inherited from *laþōną
  3. inherited from *laþōn
  4. inherited from laþian
  5. inherited from lathen

Definitions

  1. To invite

    To invite; bid; ask.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.
  4. + 4 more definitions
    1. 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.

    2. A granary

      A granary; a barn.

    3. To shape with a lathe.

    4. 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.

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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.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA