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LATHE . (r) A See also:

MECHANICAL

mechanical appliance in which material is held and rotated against a See also:

TOOL (0. Eng. tdl, generally referred to a root seen in the Goth. taujan, to make, or in the English word " taw," to work or dress leather)

tool for cutting, scraping, polishing or other purpose (see Tools). This word is of obscure origin. It may be a modified See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of " See also:

LATH (0. Eng. laett, Mid. Eng. lappe, a form possibly due to the Welsh llath; the word appears in many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch lat, Ger. Latte, and has passed into Romanic, cf. Ital. latta, Fr. latte)

lath," for in an See also:

early form of lathe the rotation is given by a treadle or See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring lath attached to the See also:

CEILING (from a verb " to ceil," i.e. to line or cover; of disputed etymology, but apparently connected with Fr. ciel, Lat. caelum, sky)

ceiling. The New See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary points out a possible source of the word in See also:

Dan. lad, meaning apparently a supporting framework, found in the name of the turning-lathe, drejelad, and also in savelad, saw-See also:

BENCH (an O.E. and Eng. form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Bank, Dan. baenk and the Eng. doublet " bank ")

bench, vaeverlad, See also:

LOOM

loom, &c. (2) One of five, formerly six, districts containing three or more hundreds, into which the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of See also:

Kent was divided. Though the See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division survives, it no longer serves any administrative purpose. It was formerly a judicial division, the See also:

court of the lathe being See also:

SUPERIOR

superior to that of the See also:

HUNDRED

hundred. In this it differs from the See also:

rape (q.v.) of See also:

Sussex, which was a See also:

GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical rather than an administrative division. In O. Eng. the word was lae', the origin of which is doubtful. The New English Dictionary considers it almost certainly identical with O.

Norse lad, landed possessions, territory, with a possible association in meaning with such words as leid', court, mhtlaea6a, attendance at a See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting or See also:

MOOT

moot, or with Mod. Dan. laegd, a division of the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country for military purposes.

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