lathe
To invite; bid; askTo invite; bid; ask.
» I've never used a lathe before.
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3 senses(UK, dialectal, transitive)To invite; bid; ask.
To shape with a lathe.
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To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
Examples
4 sentencesI've never used a lathe before.
I've never used a lathe before. Could you show me how?
Ali's grandpa was a lathe operator.
A product that once took 15 minutes to turn by hand now pops out of a computer controlled lathe every few seconds.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”),From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn, from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).
From Middle English lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse 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.
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Forms
lathes, lathing, lathed, lathedWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle