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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Lathe

Lāthe, n.

noun

n. [A-S. lædh, ledh, a district or division peculiar to Kent. It may be allied to A-S. lædhian, to invite, send for, assemble, and signify, originally, a meeting or assembly. Cf. WAPENTAKE.]

  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. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also lath.] Brande.
  2. A building in which grain is stored; a granary; a barn. [Obs.]

Lāthe, n.

noun

n. [Allied to lath, a narrow board. Cf. Ger. drechselbank, a turning-lathe, literally, a turning-bench.]

  1. (Mach.) A machine-tool for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting-tool held either by the hand or a slide-rest; — called also turning-lathe.
  2. 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.

Blanchard's lathe, a lathe for turning irregular forms after a given pattern, as lasts, gun-stocks, and the like. — Engine-lathe, or turning-engine (called, among machinists, a lathe), a machine-tool having an automatic feed, and used chiefly for turning metals, cutting screws, and often for boring. Upon the shears, or framing, A, stand the fixed head-stock, M, (which carries the spindle and face-plate, F), the movable tail-stock, C, and the compound-rest, D, which is moved longitudinally by the lead-screw, B, actuated by the feed, L, and upon which stand the tool-stock and tool-rest. — Foot-lathe, a lathe which is driven by a treadle worked by the foot. — Hand-lathe, a lathe which has no automatic feed. — Throw-lathe, a small lathe worked by one hand, while the cutting-tool is held in the other. — Rose-engine lathe. See ROSE-ENGINE.

A labeled diagram of a lathe used for turning iron.
Lathe (for iron turning).