lath
2
8.4
- noun
- /læθ/
- Specialized
:
listón
- I tell you this, they're the only tract homes in the valley, GI or not, with lath and plaster and hardwood floors.
- lath frame
Examples
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A swath of wallpaper sags away from the top of the wall, exposing glistening lath underneath.
Fiction book (1991) -
A frieze of classicizing lotus motifs crowns the lath fence, above whose simple vertical slats hang twelve garlands of fruit, miraculously rich and full.
Academic text (1990) -
You could see the wood lath right through it.
Fiction book (1995) -
Plaster and wood lath cover the floor.
Fiction book (1990) -
But the lath and plaster I didn't want anybody to help me with.
Academic text (1991) -
We roll past plaster and lath brownstones on a fake New York street.
Academic text (2007) -
The lath and plaster building was open-sided, with rows of wooden pillars holding up the roof.
Fiction book (1995) -
This is much like an old plaster and lath wall where the gaps in between the lath allow the plaster to squeeze out and key itself in, thus making a tighter bond.
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At the falls, several sawmills hummed with activity as flowing water powered the saws that cut logs into boards, shingles, laths, clapboards, and other wood products for market.
Academic text (2018) -
The contractor used a thin piece of lath as a backing for the new plaster walls.
Compounds
- Archaic
1
7.2
Thin wooden strips covered with plaster for inside walls and ceilings
How Thin
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lath comes from an old English word that meant 'strip of wood'. Think of a slat, a thin piece of wood, and you have the same idea: a lath is a narrow wooden strip used under plaster or to make a trellis.