Associations to the word «Lathe»
Wiktionary
LATHE, verb. (transitive) (UK dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.
LATHE, noun. (obsolete) 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.
LATHE, noun. A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
LATHE, noun. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
LATHE, noun. (obsolete) A granary; a barn.
LATHE, verb. To shape with a lathe.
LATHE, verb. (computer graphics) To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
LATHE CARRIER, noun. A clamp that fixes a workpiece to a lathe
Dictionary definition
LATHE, noun. Machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool.
Wise words
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