lath

My own report from Dexter was a horror show: massive, insulation-free gaps between interior and exterior walls, revealing chunks of stone and lath that had last seen daylight when James Madison was president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The 60 schools in the county that were checked for potentially unsafe ceilings were old buildings constructed using lath and plaster, which can crack and collapse if damaged.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024

The heavy plaster, mixed with Portland cement, more than three inches thick and applied to a lath of chicken wire, required an ax to break through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2023

Lee points out a nest of bees that thrum inside the wall near the broad main staircase, the hive built amid the exposed lath.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021

The dining table was a smooth piece of lath supported on both ends by stones.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

Overhead, wisteria-laden laths shot through with light cast zebraic arrays of shadow, constantly shifting — another Killingsworth trademark that turns the house into a protean phenomenon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019

She dresses in the traditional clothing of the region—a dark skirt, an embroidered huipil made on a waist loom—and weaves green laths into her long obsidian braids.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2018

The three of them moved in a row, stepping on the crooked laths, a few paces apart.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013

When the Office of Price Administration puts up the ceiling laths and covers them with plaster, something will follow that has never before happened in U.S. history.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elsewhere, the exposed laths, themselves rotting away, showed through like the ribs of a starving animal.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The crucible was lathed out of a solid block of graphite, a form of carbon which conducts electricity well.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a smell of lubrication and lathed brass.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

The first floorings had been laid throughout the house, and the partitions had been lathed so that one could realise the shape of the interior.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

This was the back-room, and opened into another of the same size, differing from the former in having no fire-place and being not lathed.

From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by John Turvill Adams

Adair says: "They are lathed with cane and plastered with mud from bottom to top within and without with a good covering of straw."

From The Problem of the Ohio Mounds by Cyrus Thomas

They talked amid the exposed plaster lathing for nearly an hour, then for half an hour more in the street out front.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017

For the first six to eight months, I worked at lathing the bottoms of cymbals.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2016

The painting is moving and I’m kind of standing still like a workman on his lathe, lathing a piece of wood.

From Forbes ● Sep. 24, 2014

The walls were stripped down to their lathing, and the new plaster was hand-buffed with beeswax, creating a sheen that, as Ms. Spellman points out, “looks incredible in candlelight.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2010

Round the cone a strip of thin lathing is coiled on a spiral; could any one stand on these steps and draw the inside of the cone?

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies