lathe
verb / noun
Meaning
- verbTo invite; bid; ask.
- nounAn 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.
- nounA machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
Example:
He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,776 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 95% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None