Lath

Quick meaning: Lath is a noun meaning (geology, petrology) Microscopic, needle-like crystals, usually of plagioclase feldspar, in a glassy groundmass.

Meaning

(geology, petrology) Microscopic, needle-like crystals, usually of plagioclase feldspar, in a glassy groundmass.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cover or line with laths.
2. 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.
3. (mining) One of the sharp-edged, thick planks driven forward to hold back loose earth or mud when digging the way through for tunnelling or spiling. Also called a spill.
4. Alternative form of lat (“staff; monumental pillar”).

Example Sentences

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

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.

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 […].

Word Forms

• laths
• lat
• latt
• lathing
• lathed

Synonyms for lath

Depending on context, synonyms include batten.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plaster, furring, counterlath, slat, joist, reaper.

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