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lath
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.
💬 Quotations
"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 […].
(geology, petrology) Microscopic, needle-like crystals, usually of plagioclase feldspar, in a glassy groundmass.
(mining) 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.
📑 Synonyms:
spill
To cover or line with laths.
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