Moby-Dick: Lath
Lath
- a thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the studs of a building, for the purpose of supporting plaster
The word lath appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 3 > Sentence 5:
But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster—tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks.
Concordance for the word lath from Moby-Dick.
