Lathe vs. Lythe — What's the Difference?

A lathe () is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.Lathes are used in woodturning, metalworking, metal spinning, thermal spraying, parts reclamation, and glass-working. Lathes can be used to shape pottery, the best-known design being the Potter's wheel.

Lythe is a small village and large civil parish, in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England, situated near Whitby within the North York Moors National Park. The name of the village derives from Old Norse and means hill or slope.

A machine for shaping a piece of material, such as wood or metal, by rotating it rapidly along its axis while pressing a fixed cutting or abrading tool against it.

(obsolete) soft; flexible

To cut or shape on a lathe.

(Scotland) A fish, the European pollock.

To invite; bid; ask.

The European pollack; - called also laith, and leet.

To shape with a lathe.

Soft; flexible.

(computer graphics) To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

(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.

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

(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.

(obsolete) A granary; a barn.

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.

Machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool