lath

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for…

   A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.

   • "You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."
   • The rubble waits him, sloping up to broken rear walls in a clogging, an openwork of laths pointlessly chevroning-flooring, furniture, glass, chunks of plaster, long tatters of wallpaper, split and shattered joists […].
   • Lanna says about wishing she was bigger in the chest and I goes that I had nothing to beat there and I was thin as a lat.
2. 2

   Microscopic, needle-like crystals, usually of plagioclase feldspar, in a glassy groundmass

3. 3

   One of the sharp-edged, thick planks driven forward to hold back loose earth or mud when…

   One of the sharp-edged, thick planks driven forward to hold back loose earth or mud when digging the way through for tunnelling or spiling. Also called a spill.

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   1. 4

      To cover or line with laths.

   2. 5

      Alternative form of lat (“staff

      Alternative form of lat (“staff; monumental pillar”).

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