Lathe

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) * 1856:, , 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.
 * 1)  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.

Verb

 * 1) To shape with a lathe.

Thesaurus
T square, alembic, anvil, awl, bale breaker, bar, battering ram, bevel, bevel square, bodkin, bradawl, buffer, caldron, calipers, cant hook, caulking iron, center punch, crowbar, crucible, dibble, dividers, edger, electric sander, electric soldering iron, engine, file, flail, forceps, fork, grapnel, grappling iron, grease gun, grindstone, hawk, hook, jack, jackscrew, jointer, level, machine, melting pot, miter box, mortar, motor, nail file, nail puller, palette knife, peavey, pincers, pinch bar, pitchfork, planer, pliers, puller, punch, punch pliers, puncheon, putty knife, ram, rammer, ramrod, retort, ripping bar, screwdriver, shaper, soldering iron, spatula, square, stapler, tackle, tamp, tamper, tamping pick, tap, test tube, tire iron, tire tool, tongs, transducer, transformer, tweezers, vise, wrecking bar

Etymology
lath: 'turning-lathe; stand', from hlað: 'pile, heap' (cf. Danish dialect lad: 'stand, support frame'  (as in drejedrejelad: 'turning-lathe', savesavelad: 'saw bench'), Norwegian dialect la:, lad: 'pile, small wall', Swedish dialect lad: 'folding table, lay of a loom'), from hlaða: 'to load'. More at lade.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese: 车床 (chēchuáng)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: draaibank
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:  Drehbank, Drehmaschine , Drehstuhl , Holzdrehmaschine
 * Hebrew: מחרטה
 * Hungarian: esztergapad
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 旋盤
 * Korean: 선반 (seonban)
 * Macedonian: струг, дребунг
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: strugalica, strug
 * Slovene: stružnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: drejskiva, slagbom, svarv, svarvstol

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: струга, струже
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * athel