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Is lathe a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word lathe is a Scrabble US word. The word lathe is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is lathe a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word lathe is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

L1A1T1H4E1

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5-letter words (3 found)

ETHAL,LATHE,THALE,

4-letter words (15 found)

EATH,HAET,HALE,HALT,HATE,HEAL,HEAT,LATE,LATH,LEAT,TAEL,TALE,TEAL,TELA,THAE,

3-letter words (18 found)

ALE,ALT,ATE,EAT,ELT,ETA,ETH,HAE,HAT,HET,LAH,LAT,LEA,LET,TAE,TEA,TEL,THE,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AH,AL,AT,EA,EH,EL,ET,HA,HE,LA,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 50 words from lathe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of lathe

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Definitions and meaning of lathe

lathe

Pronunciation

  • (General American, US) enPR: lāth IPA(key): /leɪð/
  • Rhymes: -eɪð

Etymology 1

From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn, from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to want, desire”). Cognate with German laden (“to invite”), Icelandic laða (“to attract”).

Alternative forms

  • laith

Verb

lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)

  1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *lath, leth, from Old English lǣþ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”), from Proto-West Germanic *lāþ.

Alternative forms

  • lath

Noun

lathe (plural lathes)

  1. (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.

Etymology 3

From Middle English lathe (“turning-lathe; stand”), from Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”)—compare dialectal Danish lad (“stand, support frame”) (as in drejelad (“turning-lathe”), savelad (“saw bench”)), dialectal Norwegian la, lad (“pile, small wall”), dialectal Swedish lad (“folding table, lay of a loom”)—from hlaða (“to load”). More at lade.

Noun

lathe (plural lathes)

  1. (tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
    Hypernym: machine tool
    Coordinate term: see types of machine tools
    He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe, whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.
  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.
  3. (obsolete) A granary; a barn.
Derived terms

(machine for turning and boring in metalworking or woodworking):

  • engine lathe
  • wheel lathe
Translations

Verb

lathe (third-person singular simple present lathes, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)

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

See also

  • lath
  • turner

Anagrams

  • Leath, athel, ethal, hatel

Middle English

Etymology

From Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”). More at English, Etymology 3, above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laːð/

Noun

lathe (plural lathes)

  1. a barn to house livestock or store grain, etc.; a storehouse

Descendants

  • English: lathe

References

  • “lāthe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Source: wiktionary.org