English Dictionary

lathe

IPA（発音記号）

/leɪð/

名詞

廃用

(tools, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

日本語の意味

旋盤：工作物（木材や金属など）を回転させ、その回転する工作物に対して切削工具を用いて加工し、形状を整えるための機械工具。

The machinist set the metal blank in the lathe and adjusted the cutting tool before starting the machine.

旋盤作業者は金属の素材を旋盤にセットし、機械を動かす前に切削工具を調整した。

意味（1）

(tools, woodworking) 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.

意味（2）

(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.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A granary; a barn.

[…]lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’

lathes （ plural ）