Lath

(noun.) a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.

录入:费尔普斯

• Select a dry, shady spot; dig a ditch for carrying off the waste water, and over it place a lath-work. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• He's as thin as a lath. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• In place of these, he was equipped with a sword of lath, resembling that with which Harlequin operates his wonders upon the modern stage. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• A lath-and-plaster partition had been run across the passage six feet from the end, with a door cunningly concealed in it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I hear him a-knockin' his head again the lath and plaster now. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The toboggan is constructed in Canada of flat laths. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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