Definitions
a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework
Word origin
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”)).
Used in a sentence
“"You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."”
“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 […].”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Thin support strip”4 letters
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