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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, business, carpentry, construction, crafts, engineering, hobbies, lifestyle, manufacturing, metallurgy, metalworking, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, tools, woodworking
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Broader terms: machine tool, machine
noun
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, manufacturing, textiles, weaving
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Synonyms: beater, batten, lay
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noun
A granary; a barn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To invite; bid; ask.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, transitive
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verb
To shape with a lathe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: shaper, shaping machine
Narrower terms: bench lathe
History
From Middle English *lath, leth, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāþ.
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.
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”).
Across languages
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