lath
English
Etymology
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”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /læθ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æθ
Noun
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:
Holonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from lath (noun)
- lath and plaster, plaster and lath
- lath board
- lath brick
- lathen
- lath nail
- lath plaster
- lath strapping
- lathy
Translations
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 also
- plaster
- plasterboard
- gypsum plaster
- gypsum board
- gyprock
- sheetrock
- wallboard
- drywall
- cement board
- lathe
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