Definitions for lath

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lath lath

Spelling: [lath, lahth]

IPA: /læθ, lɑθ/

Lath is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in lath (ahlt).

Definitions for lath

noun

1. a thin, narrow strip of wood, used with other strips to form latticework, a backing for plaster or stucco, a support for slates and other roofing materials, etc.
2. a group or quantity of such strips.
3. work consisting of such strips.
4. wire mesh or the like used in place of wooden laths as a backing for plasterwork.
5. a thin, narrow, flat piece of wood used for any purpose.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or line with laths.

Origin of lath

before 1000; Middle English la(th)the; replacing Middle English latt, Old English lætt; cognate with German Latte, Dutch lat

Examples for lath

By pulling the string he could spring the lath, and then let it snap back to its place.

It looked like a lath from a distance, so they got the name of "lathers" from this.

The propeller has four blades which are but little wider than a lath.

There was no lath and plaster; the walls were made of matched boards.

Don't you feel ashamed of keeping as thin as a lath when we are so fat; we who are only women?

She was tall and slender as a lath, very compliant and demure.

He's a reg'lar little ripper, sir, and as straight as a lath.

Evidently the point had embedded in a lath, for the knife did not move.

With these words Yussuf drew his sword, and exhibited a lath of palm-wood.

I am puzzled, as aforesaid, between its likeness to a ball, and a lath.