lath

A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.

"You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."

The rubble waits him, sloping up to broken rear walls in a clogging, an openwork of laths pointlessly chevroning-flooring, furniture, glass, chunks of plaster, long tatters of wallpaper, split and shattered joists […].

Microscopic, needle-like crystals, usually of plagioclase feldspar, in a glassy groundmass

One of the sharp-edged, thick planks driven forward to hold back loose earth or mud when digging the way through for tunnelling or spiling. Also called a spill.

To cover or line with laths.

Alternative form of lat (“staff; monumental pillar”).