lathe

/leษชรฐ/

IPA: /L EY1 DH/

verb
  1. 1

    To invite; bid; ask.

noun
  1. 1

    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.

noun
  1. 1

    A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

    โ€œHe shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.โ€

  2. 2

    The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.

  3. 3

    A granary; a barn.

verb
  1. 1

    To shape with a lathe.

  2. 2

    To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lathe