I disagree. In my experience, people who use a lathe don't say that they
lathed something, they
turned it on a lathe. This is in contrast to the use of the other tools you mentioned: hammer, drill, plane. If one looks at the
Google ngram viewer, the occurrence of
lathed is perilously close to zero.
Hammered and
drilled are much more common, due to their usage in contexts that have nothing to do with tools, and I have certainly heard and read people saying that they had
planed a door or a board. But
lathed? I don't doubt that it exists as a verb, but I seriously question its commonness.
As to the fact that fifty percent of players found l
athed, I attribute that to the fact that a goodly number of word game players are savvy enough to try adding
-d or
-ed to almost any noun to make another acceptable word. This does not, in my view, justify making it a common word.