Obs. [Of obscure origin: ? connected with LATHE sb.3] A turner’s lathe.
1611. Cotgr., Tournoir, a Turne, turning wheele, or Turners wheele, called a Lathe or Lare.
1684. R. Waller, Nat. Exper., 75. To take the Lump of Ice out whole, we made a small crease round it, where by putting it again in the Lare, it might be cut in two in the midst. Ibid., 77.
