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A lath or slat is a thin, narrow strip of straight-grained wood used under roof shingles or tiles, on lath and plaster walls and ceilings to hold plaster...

slow"—wearing "a not over-clean black frock-coat". In A Study in Scarlet, having just returned from Afghanistan, Watson is described "as thin as a lath and as brown...

Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc: There was an old person of Pinner, As thin as a lath, if not thinner; They dressed him in white, And roll'd him up tight...

and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture. Stucco can be applied on construction materials such as metal, expanded metal lath, concrete...

tourism to the town at a time when spa towns like Bath and Harrogate enjoyed popularity. 'If you're doubled in pain and thin as a lath, Come at once then...

allowed a rendering of clay plaster and setting coat of thin lime and fine sand on exterior-walled rooms. Split lath was nailed with square cut lath nails...

drywall construction became prevalent in North America as a time- and labor-saving alternative to lath and plaster. Sackett Board was invented in 1894 by...

(riven) laths give the best results, as they split in a line with the grain of the wood, and are stronger and not so liable to twist as machine-made laths, some...

were stiffened with bone or antler laths; post-classical bows usually have stiff tips, known as siyahs, which are made as an integral part of the wooden core...

such as those of the Ashanti people. Its usage dates back at least 6,000 years. There are suggestions that construction techniques such as lath and plaster...

interior walls using wooden lath and a layer of plaster about a half-inch thick ("lath and plaster"). Later, drywall became a standard. Typically, drywall...

grain. lath A thin, narrow strip of straight-grained wood, typically arranged side-by-side with others and used to support roof shingles or tiles, as a backing...

martensite has the appearance of lath and is called lath martensite. For steel with greater than 1% carbon, it will form a plate-like structure called plate...

construction, chicken wire or hardware cloth is used as a metal lath to hold cement or plaster, a process known as stuccoing. Concrete reinforced with chicken...

Falsterite is a rare phosphate mineral with the formula Ca2MgMn2+2(Fe2+0.5Fe3+0.5)4Zn4(PO4)8(OH)4(H2O)14. It is a pegmatitic mineral, related to the currently...

scoured. A thin coat of setting stuff is then laid on, and trowelled and brushed smooth. Two-coat work is described as render and set on walls, and lath, plaster...

spaced strips are needed for thin panelling or plaster. The use of strips with plaster, however, is called either lath and plaster or wattle and daub...

used as furring may also be referred to as "top hats", in reference to the profile of the metal. Roofing battens or battening, also called roofing lath, are...

itself which has been flattened with a screed (screed coat). In the UK, screed has also come to describe a thin, top layer of material (sand and cement...

matters. A motion to censure him went through several procedural votes before it was tabled without action. Thin, "a tall lath of a man with a bloodshotten...