lathe

verb

1. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To invite; bid; ask.
2. To shape with a lathe.
3. To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

noun

1. (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.
2. A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

   “He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.”

   “The accidental amputation was due to the guard not being on the lathe.”

   “1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe, whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.”

3. The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
4. (obsolete)A granary; a barn.

   “[…]lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’”