Lath

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A thin strip of wood or metal, usually nailed in rows to framing supports as a substructure for plaster, shingles, slates, or tiles.
  • n. A building material, such as a sheet of metal mesh, used for similar purposes.
  • n. A quantity of laths; lathing.
  • n. Work made with or from lath.
  • v. To build, cover, or line with laths.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • v. To cover or line with laths.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used.
  • v. To cover or line with laths.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A thin narrow strip of wood, used in building to form the groundwork for a roof or for the plastering of walls and ceilings.
  • n. The bow-part of a crossbow.
  • To cover or line with or as with laths.
  • n. See lathe.
  • n. In mining, one of the sharpened planks driven in advance of the excavation in sinking shafts in loose ground. See forepale, 2.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework
  • Verb Form
    lathed    lathing    laths   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    spline    slat   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lath strap   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bath    Gath    Kath    Plath    Wrath    bath    fath    hath    math    nath   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    joist    wattle    scaffolding    thatch    sawdust    lightwood    drywall    Sheetrock    clapboard    splint