laths in English

noun

1

a thin flat strip of wood, especially one of a series forming a foundation for the plaster of a wall or the tiles of a roof, or made into a trellis or fence.

That's the condition you will wish to duplicate, and this can be done with slatted frames made of furring strips on which laths are tacked one half inch apart.

verb

1

cover (a wall or ceiling) with laths.

Use "laths" in a sentence

1. Laths, not of metal

2. Parquet flooring and laths of wood

3. Laths, not of metal: arbours (buildings)

4. Wainscotting, laths and duckboards of metal

5. Tremolite laths and serpentine minerals are present in places.

6. Floating floor with controlled sonority, modified bitumen sheet and laths therefor

7. The window through which Solomon looks out has a lattice —apparently a framework with laths and perhaps elaborate carvings.

8. A framework consisting of crossed strips of wood, or laths, forming a network and generally used to cover a window.

9. As the carbon content increases, the Cementite filaments become more continuous, and at high carbon contents, the bainitic ferrite laths are finer with the Cementite stringers more numerous and more continuous

10. Other articles where Cementite is discussed: iron processing: …carbide (Fe3C), also known as Cementite, is formed; this leads to the formation of pearlite, which in a microscope can be seen to consist of alternate laths of alpha-ferrite and Cementite

11. Ceiled Sentence Examples The parent chamber and the ambulatory were Ceiled, sometimes with interlacing strips of bark or broad laths, so as to produce a plaited effect sometimes with plain boards. Ceiled roof showing exposed tie beams supported on corbels and short braces

12. Ladders and scaffolding of metal, pot hooks of metal, stair treads (steps) of metal, running boards and nosings of metal, sills of metal, staircases of metal, wainscotting and laths of metal, awnings of metal, cornices and angle irons of metal, clothes hooks of metal, tubing, roofing of metal and wire gauze

13. He calls it 'Battening of the hatches' but it is clearly the same expression: “Battens of the hatches: Long narrow laths serving by the help of nailing to confine the edges of the tarpaulins, and keep them close down to the sides of the hatchways in bad weather.”

14. Ladders and scaffolding, not of metal, stair treads (steps), not of metal, running boards and nosings, not of metal, sills, not of metal, staircases, not of metal, wainscotting and laths, not of metal, awnings, not of metal, cornices and angle irons, not of metal, clothes hooks, not of metal, tubing, roofing and gauze, not of metal

15. ‘The assembly of the whole structure (including the Ashlaring and the assembly laths for the tile) will last, taking into account the size of the house, between 3 and 5 days.’ 2 Upright boarding fixed from the joists to the rafters of an attic to cut off the acute angle between the roof and the floor.

16. Working of wood not provided for in subclasses B27B to B27L, e.g. by stretching [2] Manufacture or reconditioning of specific semifinished or finished articles (features of copying devices B23Q; manufacture of plywood or veneer, shaping plywood or veneer into articles B27D; of central layers for plywood B27D 1/00; nailing or stapling machines in general B27F 7/00; of elements for cooperage or wheel-making B27H) . of roofing elements, e.g. shingles . of flooring elements, e.g. parqueting blocks (assembling wooden elements on backings of other substances B32B, e.g. B32B 37/00) . of specially-shaped wood laths or strips . of airscrew blades . of railings, stairs, stair stringers, ladders, or parts thereof . of railroad sleepers