FromMiddle English lathen Old English laþian ( “ to invite, summon, call upon, ask ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *laþōn Proto-Germanic *laþōną ( “ to invite ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *lēy- ( “ to want, desire ” ) . Cognate withGerman laden ( “ to invite ” ) ,Icelandic laða ( “ to attract ” ) .
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes present participle lathing simple past and past participle lathed
( transitive , UK dialectal ) invite ;bid ;ask .FromMiddle English *lath leth Old English lǣþ ( “ a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *lāþ
lathe (plural lathes
( obsolete ) Kent , in England, from theAnglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.FromMiddle English lathe ( “ turning-lathe; stand ” ) , fromOld Norse hlað ( “ pile, heap ” ) —compare dialectal Danishlad ( “ stand, support frame ” ) (as indrejelad ( “ turning-lathe ” ) ,savelad ( “ saw bench ” ) ), dialectal Norwegianla lad ( “ pile, small wall ” ) , dialectal Swedishlad ( “ folding table, lay of a loom ” ) —fromhlaða ( “ to load ” ) . More atlade
A lathe lathe (plural lathes
( tools, metalworking , woodworking ) machine tool used to shape a piece of material, orworkpiece , by rotating the workpiece against acutting tool .Hypernym: machine tool Coordinate term: seetypes of machine tools He shaped the bedpost by turning it on alathe . 1856 :Gustave Flaubert ,Madame Bovary , Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-AvelingOf the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over hislathe , whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or. ( weaving ) movable swing frame of aloom , carrying thereed for separating thewarp threads and beating up theweft ; alay , orbatten .( obsolete ) granary ; abarn .2008 1894 ],Walter William Skeat ,Notes on The Canterbury Tales. Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 5 , page124 :[ …] lathe lathe kirkegarth ,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’
( machine for turning and boring in metalworking or woodworking ) :
machine tool used to shape a piece of material
Arabic:مِخْرَطَة f ( miḵraṭa ) Egyptian Arabic:مخرطة f ( maḵraṭa ) Armenian:խառատահաստոց (hy) ( xaṙatahastocʻ ) Azerbaijani:tornaçı dəzgahı tokar dəzgahı Belarusian:стано́к m ( stanók ) ,варшта́т (be) m ( varštát ) ,така́рны стано́к m ( takárny stanók ) ,така́рны варшта́т m ( takárny varštát ) Bulgarian:струг (bg) m ( strug ) Burmese:တွင်ခုံ (my) ( twanghkum ) Catalan:torn (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:車床 / 车床 (zh) ( chēchuáng ) ,鏇床 / 旋床 (zh) ( xuànchuáng ) ,镟床 (zh) ( xuánchuáng ) Crimean Tatar:torna Czech:soustruh (cs) m Danish:drejebænk c Dutch:draaibank (nl) Esperanto:tornomaŝino Finnish:sorvi (fi) French:tour (fr) m Galician:torno (gl) m German:Drechselbank (de) f Drehbank (de) f Drehmaschine (de) f Drehstuhl (de) m Holzdrehmaschine f ( for processing wood ) Greek:Ancient:τόρνος m ( tórnos ) Hebrew:מַחְרֵטָה (he) f Hindi:खराद (hi) m ( kharād ) Hungarian:esztergapad (hu) ,eszterga (hu) Icelandic:rennibekkur m Irish:deil f Italian:tornio (it) m Japanese:旋盤 (ja) ( せんばん, senban ) ,レース (ja) ( rēsu ) Korean:선반(旋盤) (ko) ( seonban ) Latgalian:taca Latin:tornus m Latvian:virpa Luxembourgish:Dréibänk f Macedonian:струг m ( strug ) ,дребунг m ( drebung ) Maori:hurimau mihīni hurimau paetārai Norwegian:Bokmål:dreiebenk m Nynorsk:dreiebenk m Ottoman Turkish:طورنو ( torno, turno ) ,چقرق ( çıkrık ) Plautdietsch:Dreibenkj f Polish:tokarka (pl) f Portuguese:torno (pt) m Romanian:strung (ro) n Russian:тока́рный стано́к m ( tokárnyj stanók ) ,стано́к (ru) m ( stanók ) Serbo-Croatian:Roman:strugalica f strug (sh) m Slovene:stružnica f Spanish:torno (es) m Swedish:svarv (sv) c svarvstol Thai:เครื่องกลึง ( krʉ̂ʉang-glʉng ) Tibetan:དཀྲུག་འཁོར ( dkrug 'khor ) Turkish:torna (tr) Ukrainian:тока́рний стано́к m ( tokárnyj stanók ) ,тока́рний верста́т ( tokárnyj verstát ) ,тока́рня f ( tokárnja ) ,стано́к m ( stanók ) ,верста́т (uk) m ( verstát ) Welsh:turn (cy) m
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes present participle lathing simple past and past participle lathed
To shape with a lathe. ( computer graphics ) three-dimensional model by rotating a set ofpoints around a fixedaxis .FromOld Norse hlað ( “ pile, heap ” ) . More atEnglish, Etymology 3 , above.
lathe plural lathes
abarn to houselivestock or storegrain , etc.; astorehouse c. 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer , “The Reeve’s Tale”, inThe Canterbury Tales By Goddes herte, he sal nat scape us bathe!lathe ! By God’s heart, he will not escape us both! Why didn’t you put the horse in the barn! 
