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/lɑːθ/ · noun
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..
"You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."
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 […].
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.
Use lath when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lath means 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..
Common synonyms include batten.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."
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