lath

• This storing up of energy is analogous to pulling aside the lath, and is the making use of the elasticity of the Aether, in order to produce a tendency to recoil. —  Aether and Gravitation
• The houses were constructed principally of timber, lath, and plaster and were apparently of great antiquity. —  Recollections of Old Liverpool
• The latter was a low long building, constructed of stone, lath, and plaster, and presented the appearance of an ordinary country cottage. —  Recollections of Old Liverpool
• You're a great long growing boy, thin as a lath, and it'd take years to make you fit to kill, so as it don't matter for you There is a chance open to us now for escape," said Don bitterly; "to get right away, and journey to some port, where we could get a passage to England as sailors, and you treat it with ridicule Not I, Mas' Don, lad You do, Jem. —  The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens
• With respect to the smaller description, such as lath-wood, spars, and oars, the reduction will be proportionate Such were the great measures of free-trade brought forward by the government. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria

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