different between lathe vs lathi

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, US) enPR: l?th IPA^(key): /le?ð/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -e?ð

Etymology 1

From Middle English lathen, from Old English laþian (“to invite, summon, call upon, ask”), from Proto-Germanic *laþ?n? (“to invite”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y- (“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, Britain dialectal) To invite; bid; ask.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *lath, from Old English l?þ (“a division of a county containing several hundreds, a district, lathe”).

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 lath (“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. 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.

   • 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. 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

• engine 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.

Noun

lathe (plural lathes)

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ???? (l??h?).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??ti?/

Noun

lathi (countable and uncountable, plural lathis)

1. (India, countable) A heavy stick or club, usually used by policemen.
   • 1973, JG Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur:

     The iron-bound bamboo staves, known as lâtees, with which most disputes among rival zemindars were traditionally settled.

   • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 131:

     A phalanx of policemen armed with lathis faced a mob of mill workers squatting on the road.

   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 94:

     Nearby, held back by a line of lathi-carrying peons, stood the farmers whose vessels were being weighed […].

2. (uncountable) A martial art based on stick fighting originally practiced in India.

   Lathi shares its basic principles with other martial arts.

Derived terms

• lathicharge

References

• “lathi”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Lahti, Litha, laith, tahil, tahli, thali, thial