lath
lath
- n a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework
- To make the gamble a good one, it has already had OPA put price increases on cast iron, soil pipe, gypsum lath and the clay industry, is now hinting broadly that, to get the .
- Samples: 25 for a piece of hand-split lath; $100 for enough bricks to face an ordinary fireplace.
- On nearby slabs already dry, they worked in crews of two and three, laying bricks, raising studs, nailing lath, painting, sheathing, shingling.