/leɪð/
OriginFrom Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn, from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).
- UK, dialectal, transitiveTo invite; bid; ask.
- To shape with a lathe.
- To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
- obsoleteAn 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 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,”
- The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
- obsoleteA granary; a barn.
“[…]lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his n”
Formslathes(present, singular, third-person) · lathing(participle, present) · lathed(participle, past) · lathed(past) · laith(alternative) · lathes(plural) · lath(alternative)