lathe
/leɪð/
lathe verb: to invite; bid; ask.
Verb (1)
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)
Noun (1)
lathe (plural lathes)
- 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.
Noun (2)
lathe (plural lathes)
- 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.
- The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
- A 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 neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’2008 [1894], Walter William Skeat, Notes on The Canterbury Tales. Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 5, page 124
Verb (2)
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)
- To shape with a lathe.
- To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
lathe meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
lathe in Hindi
- machine tool used to shape a piece of material
- खराद kharād
lathe in Tamil
- கடைசல் எந்திரம், கடைசல் பொறி, கடைதற்பொறி, கடைசலி, கடைச்சலெந்திரம், உருளுருவாக்கி
lathe in Urdu
- خراد
lathe in Malayalam
- കടച്ചിൽച്ചക്രം, അച്ചുപടി, നെയ്ത്തുതറിയുടെ ആട്ടുചട്ടം
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- lathe in Kannada
- ಕಡೆತದ ಯಂತ್ರ, ಚರಕಿಯಂತ್ರ, ಲೇತ್, ಕಡಚಲು
- lathe in Gujarati
- સંઘાડો saṅghāḍo, ગચ્છ gacch
- lathe in Arabic
- مِخْرَطَة miḵraṭa
- lathe in Indonesian
- bubut
- lathe in Thai
- เครื่องกลึง krʉ̂ʉang-glʉng, กลึง glʉng
- lathe in Myanmar
- တွင်ခုံ twanghkum
Examples of lathe in a sentence
- Several machinists were busy operating the lathes, mills, and drill presses on the shop floor.
- He made wooden soldiers by turning them on a hand lathe.
- Make sure the workpiece is properly secured in the chuck before turning on the lathe.
Synonyms of lathe
Forms of lathe
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | lathes |
| present participle | lathing |
| past participle | lathed |
| past | lathed |
| alternative form | laith |
| Noun | |
| plural | lathes |
| alternative form | lath |
Origin of lathe
From 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”).
From Middle English *lath, leth, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāþ.
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.
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Questions about lathe
- What does lathe mean?
- Lathe means to invite; bid; ask.
- What is lathe in Hindi?
- Lathe in Hindi is खराद (kharād). See Lathe meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lathe?
- Lathe can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce lathe?
- Lathe is pronounced /leɪð/ (US).
- What is the past tense of lathe?
- The past tense of lathe is lathed.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lathe (page history and authors); lathe (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lathe (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lathe (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lathe (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ગચ્છ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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