lathes

Noun (1)

lathe (plural lathes)

1. (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.

Noun (2)

lathe (plural lathes)

1. 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.
2. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.

   Synonyms:

   beater, batten, lay

3. (obsolete) 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

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