lathe

IPA: ɫˈeɪð

(obsolete) 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.
(tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
(weaving) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
(obsolete) A granary; a barn.

(transitive, UK dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.
To shape with a lathe.
(computer graphics) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

Examples of "lathe" in Sentences

They use a machine called a lathe to spin the wood, and special cutting tools to shape it.
-- The important things about a lathe are the spindle bearings and the ways for the tool-holder.
The lathe was a pleasure to him, and so with bench work, and within ten days a new and larger wagon was turned out.
The lathe is a circular vise that can hold a drill bit or a blade and rotates at a high rate of speed, Mr. Riggs said.
It is selected from the in-feed scale of the lathe, which is determined by the feed gear, according to the proportion a: s.
Both can earn more money than each can earn separately, and the skilled man who formerly worked the second lathe is released.
The lathe, which is essential to make many of the more complex tools on the Forbes list, is a mechanism for rotating work to be shaped with a knife.
A fairly high speed is desirable, and may be obtained either by foot, or, if power is available, is readily got by connecting to the speed cone of a lathe, which is presumably permanently belted to the motor.
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.