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Definition of Laths
1. lath [v] - See also: lath
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laths
Literary usage of Laths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. I.C.S. Reference Library: A Series of Textbooks Prepared for the Students of by International Correspondence Schools (1909)
"The laths for exterior brick or stone walls are usually attached to vertical ...
For the interior walls in frame buildings, the laths are attached directly ..."
2. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1896)
"It is generally admitted that the best wood for laths is white pine, ... Hard pine
is not a good material for laths, as it contains too much pitch. ..."
3. Notes on Building Construction by Henry Fidler, Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1879)
"laths. The laths principally required by the builder are of two kinds—those used
for plastering ... Plasterers' laths are thin strips of wood, about an inch ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"But the English indoor plastering upon laths is commonly of the moat fragile ...
The carpenters' work being complete, strong batten-laths are nailed up to ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...by Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1796)
"It is limply this: as the laths are poing to be nailed on, fome of the above-mentioned
... When either of the ends of any of the laths lap over other laths, ..."
6. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry and Building: A General Reference Work by American Technical Society (1909)
"The best wooden laths are made of pine or spruce, and are only partially seasoned.
... All laths are now machine-sawn. The old-fashioned split ..."
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