lathes

verb

To invite; bid; ask.

noun

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.

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.

2. 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. A granary; a barn.

1. To shape with a lathe.
2. To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.