Usually means: Machine for shaping material rotationally.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lathe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lathe: Merriam-Webster
  3. lathe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lathe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lathe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lathe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lathe, lathe: Wordnik
  8. lathe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lathe: Wiktionary
  10. lathe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lathe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lathe: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lathe, lathe: Dictionary.com
  14. lathe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Lathe (audio mastering), Lathe (county subdivision), Lathe (disambiguation), Lathe (metal), Lathe (tool), Lathe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lathe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lathe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lathe: Rhymezone
  19. Lathe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lathe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lathe: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lathe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lathe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. lathe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lathe (metal), Lathe (tool), lathe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lathe: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See lathed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, UK dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.
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:  (tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (obsolete) A granary; a barn.
verb:  To shape with a lathe.
verb:  (computer graphics) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

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