lathe
IPA: ɫˈeɪð
noun
- (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.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "lathe" in Sentences
- The man is working on a lathe.
- It is thought they lived in the lathe and plaster walls.
- He apprenticed as a toolmaker, but lost a finger in a lathe.
- The ceiling of the hall is supported by lathe turned pillars.
- The preferred embodiment of the invention is a veneer lathe charger.
- He was the inventor of the rotary lathe used in plywood manufacturing.
- The total cost to run a lathe depends on the setup of the lathe itself.
- The lathe is equipped with an industrial grade diamond as the cutting tool.
- Along with the press, came the mechanical lathe and an iron cutting machine.
- 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.