Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
- transitive verb To cut or shape on a lathe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In England, apart or large division of a county, comprising several hundreds: a term now confined to the county of Kent, in which there are five of these lathes or divisions. See
rape . - To invite; bid; ask.
- noun A barn or granary.
- A Middle English form of
loath . - A Middle English form of
loathe . - noun See
sanding-machine . - noun A machine for working wood, metals, or other substances by causing the material to turn with greater or less speed, according to the nature of the material and the work to be performed, before a tool which is held at rest relatively to the peripheral motion of the object operated upon.
- noun That part of a loom in which the reed is fixed, and by the movements of which the weft-threads are laid parallel to each other, shot after shot, in the process of weaving.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun obsolete A granary; a barn.
- noun (Mach.) 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.
- noun The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also
lay andbatten . - noun a lathe for turning irregular forms after a given pattern, as lasts, gunstocks, and the like.
- noun a small lathe which, from its high speed, is adapted for drilling; a hand lathe.
- noun a turning lathe in which the cutting tool has an automatic feed; -- used chiefly for turning and boring metals, cutting screws, etc.
- noun a lathe which is driven by a treadle worked by the foot.
- noun a lathe operated by hand; a power turning lathe without an automatic feed for the tool.
- noun an engine lathe.
- noun a small lathe worked by one hand, while the cutting tool is held in the other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
invite ;bid ;ask . - noun obsolete An administrative division of the county of
Kent , in England, from theAnglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century. - noun A
machine tool used to shape a piece of material, orworkpiece , by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool. - noun The
movable swing frame of aloom , carrying thereed for separating thewarp threads and beating up theweft ; alay , orbatten . - noun obsolete A
granary ; abarn . - verb To shape with a lathe.
- verb computer graphics To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of
points around a fixedaxis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This casting is then placed in an instrument called a _portrait lathe_ (of which we have a very perfect one at the Mint, which I caused to be made at Paris), and reduced fac-similes of it are turned by the lathe, thus preparing for us the dies which we need.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat
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Both can earn more money than each can earn separately, and the skilled man who formerly worked the second lathe is released.
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The lathe is a circular vise that can hold a drill bit or a blade and rotates at a high rate of speed, Mr. Riggs said.
Yale Student Dies in Chemistry-Lab Accident Sophia Hollander 2011
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They use a machine called a lathe to spin the wood, and special cutting tools to shape it.
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They use a machine called a lathe to spin the wood, and special cutting tools to shape it.
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The lathe, which is essential to make many of the more complex tools on the Forbes list, is a mechanism for rotating work to be shaped with a knife.
Humanity's Unseen Weapons Edward Tenner 2006
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It is selected from the in-feed scale of the lathe, which is determined by the feed gear, according to the proportion a: s.
4. Preparation of the work on the regular engine lathe Horst Kth 1990
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A fairly high speed is desirable, and may be obtained either by foot, or, if power is available, is readily got by connecting to the speed cone of a lathe, which is presumably permanently belted to the motor.
On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall
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The lathe was a pleasure to him, and so with bench work, and within ten days a new and larger wagon was turned out.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns Roger Thompson Finlay
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-- The important things about a lathe are the spindle bearings and the ways for the tool-holder.
Practical Mechanics for Boys J. S. Zerbe
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