To the little boy the lath is a horse, to the older boy it becomes a sword. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
When hung in this manner five or six plants to the lath are the usual number unless they are very large. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
"Sir Tig --" she exclaimed and put her finger to her lips just in time to stop the "lath" from coming out. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference
Those rolls of Irish cloth were under the thatch, above the dry gorse stored up on the "lath" in his cowhouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Manx Nation - 1891] Reference
Later a strip of wood or "lath" was used to support the rope, and this is probably why the turning machine came to be known as a "lathe.". From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
One edge of each lath may, if desired, be bevelled a little. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
I was one of its builders for I put on lath at 4 cents a yard. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
There was no lath and plaster; the walls were made of matched boards. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
I doubt if any one ever found a decayed lath in connection with plaster. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference
Smead house; but there was no lath and plaster, the ceiling being the same. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
Entering the cloth and lath superstructure he found himself in pitch darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
This slasher cuts up the slabs into lengths suitable for lath or fence-pickets. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
It looked like a lath from a distance, so they got the name of "lathers" from this. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
This elasticity and inertia may be well illustrated by the bending of a lath or cane. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
From a nearby house appeared a lath-like man, who strode out to the road, grinning broadly. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Paris outside of the wire lath and plaster originally adopted as a protection against fire. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference
The particular feature of this form was the use of a lath and plaster lining to the lagging. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
It was for a lath and plaster structure without galleries, and was opened apparently in 1792. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
So called patent lath consisting of boards with parallel dovetail grooves and ridges was used. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
In laying the blocks a thin lath was used to keep the mortar back about one inch from the face. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Its interior was faced with lath and plaster, a plaster ceiling and a boarded floor being added. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
Bella appeared -- a rather good looking child of fourteen or so, slim as a lath and with hungry eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
The spaces between them, which had been formerly boarded, he found filled only with lath and plaster. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The houses were constructed principally of timber, lath, and plaster and were apparently of great antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
The current now flows backwards in the same way that the lath returned back, and charges the jar as at first. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
When the plants are to be hung on lath they may be wilted before "stringing" or not, at the option of the grower. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Drive a row of lath nails into the top and bottom edges of the back-board about half their length at 2 inch intervals. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
It is no uncommon thing, too, to find houses divided only by lath and standard partitions, without a single brick in them. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
Illustrate by taking a long slat or lath, drive it into the ground firmly, and then, catching it by the top, push it over. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Some were transplanted into pots and placed in the greenhouse; others were transplanted into a light soil in a lath house. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
Ours is a kit house, ordered from the Sears catalog in 1929, with batches of shingles, lumber and lath delivered by rail car. From Wordnik.com. [When Half As Big Is More Than Enough] Reference
The latter was a low long building, constructed of stone, lath, and plaster, and presented the appearance of an ordinary country cottage. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
This mode is considered by many growers the safest way, and by others as no better than the more common way of hanging simply on the lath. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
In places the river was fairly black with floating masses of lath, shingles, roofs, floors and other lumber that had formerly been houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
The fight was over, I feel with bruin I wakened five days later in a lath and plastered room with my son and both partners working over me. From Wordnik.com. [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference
For this reason the manner of hanging on lath is the better way and in New England is fast displacing the old method of hanging with twine. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
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