verb

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

noun

• (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.

noun

• (tools, metalworking, woodworking) 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."
• (weaving) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
• (obsolete) A granary; a barn.
  "[…]lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’"

verb

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