lath

[US]/lɑːθ/
[UK]/læθ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. wooden strips or boards, especially those forming a framework for plaster work.
Word Forms
Plurallaths

Phrases & Collocations

wooden lath

plaster lath

Example Sentences

soap will not lather in hard water.

Dad had got into a right lather by the time I got home.

The students were in a lather over the proposed restrictions.

They showed keen interest in the various lathes on exhibition.

Look, don’t worry! There’s no point getting yourself into a lather over this!

"If you put some lather on your chin, you'll find it much easier to shave."

To automate the control process of the lathes has become very easy today.

What’s going on? Chris has just come rushing into my office all in a lather, saying something about a lost report.

But in the couse of lathing and dawdling,the trouble of deformation,empyrosis and crack lf parts often appears which affects seriously the processing quality.

Real-world Examples

You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut.

Source: A Study in Scarlet by Sherlock Holmes

The latter, Peter found the lath in the lavatory of a nearby latrine with lattice windows.

Source: Pan Pan

Genuine lath and plaster on real two-by-four studs.

Source: Growing Pains Season 1

The laths of the roof were rotting away, and during one whole winter her bolster was wet.

Source: A simple heart.

It was a very small stuffy fusty room, with boards, and rafters, and cobwebs, and lath and plaster.

Source: Peter Rabbit and His Friends (Part 2)

Tha'rt as thin as a lath an' as white as a wraith, but there's not a knob on thee.

Source: The Secret Garden (Original Version)

Besides, what man would have cared to take her-a girl without a sou, no fatter than a lath, and not at all pretty?

Source: Women’s Paradise (Part 1)

She was a woman noisily constructed; in addition to her enclosing framework of whalebone and lath, she wore pattens summer and winter, in wet weather and in dry, to preserve her boots from wear.

Source: Returning Home

It was the simplest matter in the world to stand peeping through the laths into the street, to beat twice with my foot when anybody was approaching, and once when all was clear again.

Source: Amateur Thief Rafiz

To all appearance he owns nothing more than a few miserable boat-ribs and two or three bundles of laths; but below in the port his teeming wood-yard supplies all the cooperage trade of Anjou.

Source: Eugénie Grandet

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