lath
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle English laththe, laþþe, earlier lathe, laþe, altered from Old English lætt (“lath”), from Proto-Germanic *lattō, *laþþō (compare Dutch lat, German Latte) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lat- (compare Welsh llath (“rod, wand, yard”)).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lath (plural laths)
- 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.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- 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 […].
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 21:
- 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.
- Synonym: lath strap
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
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Terms derived from lath (noun)
TranslationsEdit
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.
See alsoEdit
VerbEdit
lath (third-person singular simple present laths, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)