lathe
English
Pronunciation
- (General American, US) enPR: lāth IPA(key): /leɪð/Category:English 1-syllable words#LATHECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#LATHE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#LATHEAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪðCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪð#LATHECategory:Rhymes:English/eɪð/1 syllable#LATHE
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#LATHECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#LATHE lathen, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#LATHECategory:English terms derived from Old English#LATHE laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#LATHECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#LATHE *laþōn, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#LATHECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#LATHE *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#LATHE *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).
Alternative forms
Verb
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)Category:English lemmas#LATHECategory:English verbs#LATHECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LATHECategory:Pages with entries#LATHECategory:Pages with 2 entries#LATHE
Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#LATHECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#LATHE *lath, leth, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#LATHECategory:English terms derived from Old English#LATHE lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#LATHECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#LATHE *lāþ.
Alternative forms
Noun
lathe (plural lathes)Category:English lemmas#LATHECategory:English nouns#LATHECategory:English countable nouns#LATHECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LATHECategory:Pages with entries#LATHECategory:Pages with 2 entries#LATHE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#LATHE) 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.
Etymology 3
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#LATHECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#LATHE lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old NorseCategory:English terms derived from Old Norse#LATHE 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.
Noun
lathe (plural lathes)Category:English lemmas#LATHECategory:English nouns#LATHECategory:English countable nouns#LATHECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LATHECategory:Pages with entries#LATHECategory:Pages with 2 entries#LATHE
- (tools, metalworkingCategory:en:Metalworking#LATHE, woodworkingCategory:en:Woodworking#LATHE) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
- Hypernyms: machine tool < machine
- Hyponym: turret lathe
- Coordinate term: see at machine tool § Hyponyms
- He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.Category:English terms with usage examples#LATHE
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- Of 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 his lathe, whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.
- (weavingCategory:en:Weaving#LATHE) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#LATHE) A granary; a barn.
- 2008 [1894], Walter William Skeat, Notes on The Canterbury Tales. Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 5, page 124:
- […] 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’Category:English terms with quotations#LATHE
Derived terms
(machine for turning and boring in metalworking or woodworking):
Translations
Verb
lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)Category:English lemmas#LATHECategory:English verbs#LATHECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LATHECategory:Pages with entries#LATHECategory:Pages with 2 entries#LATHE
- To shape with a lathe.
- (computer graphicsCategory:en:Computer graphics#LATHE) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
Translations
See also
Anagrams
Category:en:Mechanical engineering#LATHEMiddle English
Etymology
From Old NorseCategory:Middle English terms borrowed from Old Norse#LATHECategory:Middle English terms derived from Old Norse#LATHE hlað (“pile, heap”). More at English, Etymology 3, above.
Pronunciation
Noun
latheCategory:Middle English lemmas#LATHECategory:Middle English nouns#LATHECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#LATHECategory:Pages with entries#LATHECategory:Pages with 2 entries#LATHE (plural lathes)
- a barn to house livestock or store grain, etc.; a storehouse
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reeve’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:
- By Goddes herte, he sal nat scape us bathe!Category:Middle English terms with quotations#LATHE
Why ne had thow pit the capul in the lathe!- By God’s heart, he will not escape us both! Why didn’t you put the horse in the barn!
Descendants
- English: lathe
References
- “lāthe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.