lathe
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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.
A tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a (w).
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''He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.''
1856: (w), (w), 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.
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
(quote-book)''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’|origyear=1894
To shape with a lathe.
To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
a barn to house livestock or store grain, etc.; a storehouse
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