Noun: lath
Sample Sentences
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It is a piece of wood furnished with two parallel rows of plates, folding over each other, so as to resemble, in some degree, the laths of a blind. [1847, editorial staff, “Swimming Skate”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68:]
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"You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut." [1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:]
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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 […]. [1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:]
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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. [1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 21:]
Nouns inflected like lath
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English laththe, laþþe, earlier lathe, laþe, altered from Old English lætt (“lath”), from Proto-West Germanic *lattu, from Proto-Germanic *laþô (compare Dutch lat, German Latte) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lat- (compare Welsh llath (“rod, wand, yard”)). See: Middle English Nouns '
laththe', Dutch Nouns '
lat', German Nouns '
Latte'.
Verbs referencing "lath"
German Nouns
Latte, Spanish Nouns
lata, Italian Nouns
latta, Russian Nouns
лата, Danish Nouns
lægte.