meaning of lathe
1. Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent.
2. A granary; a barn.
3. A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool.
4. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten.
5. machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
Related Words
lathe | lathed | lathee | lather | lathered | lathereeve | lathering | lathery |
