lath

The propeller has four blades which are but little wider than a lath.

She was tall and slender as a lath, very compliant and demure.

Don't you feel ashamed of keeping as thin as a lath when we are so fat; we who are only women?

He's a reg'lar little ripper, sir, and as straight as a lath.

By pulling the string he could spring the lath, and then let it snap back to its place.

There was no lath and plaster; the walls were made of matched boards.

It looked like a lath from a distance, so they got the name of "lathers" from this.

Evidently the point had embedded in a lath, for the knife did not move.

With these words Yussuf drew his sword, and exhibited a lath of palm-wood.

I am puzzled, as aforesaid, between its likeness to a ball, and a lath.