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Meaning of lathe

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

lathe

Pronunciation:/leɪð/

noun

Definitions

  1. 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

Pronunciation:/leɪð/

noun

Definitions

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

    Example: He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.

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

  3. A granary; a barn.

verb

Definitions

  1. To shape with a lathe.

  2. To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.