Definition of "lathe"

lathe¹

/leɪð/

verb
third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed
1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.

lathe²

/leɪð/

noun
plural lathes
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.

lathe³

/leɪð/

noun
plural lathes
1. (tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
  Quotations
  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.
  1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
2. (weaving) 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. (obsolete) A granary; a barn.
  Quotations
  […] 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’
  2008 , Walter William Skeat, Notes on The Canterbury Tales. Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 5, page 124
verb
third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed
1. To shape with a lathe.
2. (computer graphics) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.