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Plural of lathe

regular plural

The plural of lathe is lathes.

Forms of lathe

Singularlathe /leɪð/
Plurallathes
Countablecountable

Lathes in a sentence

  • Several machinists were busy operating the lathes, mills, and drill presses on the shop floor.From the entry mill

Meaning of lathe

  1. verb To invite; bid; ask.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

Full definition of lathe

Questions about the plural of lathe

What is the plural of lathe?
The plural of lathe is lathes.
Is lathe countable?
Lathe is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lathe (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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