Vocabulary : Lathe to Lath-shaped

Lathe : Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent. ;; A granary; a barn. ;; A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool. ;; The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten.
Lathed : of Lath
Lather : Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water. ;; Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse. ;; To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face. ;; To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse. ;; To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.
Lathered : of Lather
Lathereeve : Alt. of Lathreeve
Lathering : of Lather
Lathing : of Lath ;; The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.
Lathreeve : Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.
Laths : of Lath
Lath-shaped : Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.
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