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 DfE previously said it was liaising with the county council for updates and there was "no evidence of there being systematic issues with lath and plaster".

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

Readings on lath and plaster can be misleading, though, so if that’s what you have, look for nails in baseboards, which should point to studs, or for electrical outlets, which usually have a stud alongside.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2022

Inside, it was warmer than when we left, because Woody was already making good his promise to Mama, tacking up some ends of lath he’d found, stuffing rolled paper around the door frame.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

Seepage has rotted away the wooden beams supporting the parqueted floors, loosened the gold and plaster ceilings which are nailed precariously to deteriorating laths.

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

The bare lathed walls were hung with fishing jackets, nets, mackerel lines and other shore appurtenances.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The house was substantially built; the walls formed of strong, upright posts, lathed across, plastered with mud, and whitewashed; and the roof tiled.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

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

The outer walls of a stone house should always be firred off inside for lathing and plastering, to keep them thoroughly dry.

From Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen