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.

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)

Noun

(en noun)

A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.

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A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, or matcha (green tea).

Noun

(en noun) (Latte stone)

A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity.