Synonyms for lath
- girder
- joist
- piling
- pillar
- plank
- pole
- scaffolding
- shaft
- sill
- timber
- axle
- bail
- balk
- bolster
- boom
- brace
- cantilever
- column
- crossbar
- crosspiece
- jamb
- lintel
- pile
- post
- prop
- rafter
- reach
- scantling
- spar
- stanchion
- stay
- stringer
- strip
- strut
- stud
- trestle
- two-by-four
- transverse
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR 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.