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lathe | lathy |

As a verb lathe

is to invite; bid; ask.

As a noun lathe

is 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.

As an adjective lathy is

like a lath; long and slender.

lathe

English

(wikipedia lathe)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lathen, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

  • To invite; bid; ask.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) *.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) . More at lade.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 .
  • * 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.
  • The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
  • (obsolete) A granary; a barn.
    • (Chaucer)

    Verb

    (lath)
  • To shape with a lathe.
  • (computer graphics) To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

    • See also

    * lath * turner

    Anagrams

    *

    lathy

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Like a lath; long and slender.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1854, author=William Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Lancashire Witches, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In this way he was dragged out; and as he crept up the bank, with the wet pouring from his apparel, which now clung tightly to his lathy limbs, he was greeted by the jeers of Nicholas. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Hamilton Drummond, title=The Justice of the King, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And little lathy Charles with his long, narrow white face and obstinate chin, is no A B C of a boy. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Rudyard Kipling, title=A Diversity of Creatures, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage='Twas just a bit o' lathy old plank which Jim had throwed acrost the brook for his own conveniences. }}