lathe

  1. Verb.  (transitive, UK) To invite; bid; ask.
  2. 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.
  3. Noun.  A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
  4. Verb.  To shape with a lathe.

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