Meaning of lathe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To invite; bid; ask
2. 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.
   obsolete
3. A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
4. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
5. A machine for shaping a piece of material, such as wood or metal, by rotating it rapidly along its axis while pressing a fixed cutting or abrading tool against it.
6. 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
7. A granary; a barn.
   obsolete
8. To cut or shape on a lathe.
9. A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool
10. a machine for shaping wood, metal etc, which turns the piece of wood etc which is to be shaped round and round against a tool held steady by the operator. draaibank مَخْرَطَه струг torno soustruh die Drehbank drejebænk τόρνοςtorno treipink ماشین تراش یا خراطی sorvi tourמחרטה खराद blanjalica eszterga(pad) bubut rennibekkur tornio 旋盤 선반(旋盤) tekinimo staklės virpa mesin larik draaibankdreiebenk tokarnia د لرګيو او فلزاتو د توګلو ماشين torno strung токарный станок sústruh stružnica strug svarv เค...
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11. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft
12. (Tools) a machine for shaping, boring, facing, or cutting a screw thread in metal, wood, etc, in which the workpiece is turned about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
13. A granary; a barn
14. (General Engineering) (tr) to shape, bore, or cut a screw thread in or on (a workpiece) on a lathe
    tr
15. (Historical Terms) history Brit any of the former administrative divisions of Kent
    history
16. a machine for use in working a piece of wood, metal, etc., by holding and rotating it about a horizontal axis against a tool that shapes it.
17. to cut, shape, or treat on a lathe.
18. n → Drehbank f; lathe operator → Dreher(in) m(f)
    n

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Examples

“He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a 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.”

“[…]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’”

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