These, before they are laid on, are formed into sheets about five feet long, and as deep as the length of the leaf will admit, which is doubled at one end over a slip or lath of bamboo.
This machine cuts up the slabs into lengths suitable for lath or fence-pickets.
With this machine the operator can trim the bundles of lath simply by tilting the packing frame over from him causing the bundles to pass between the saws, thereby trimming both ends at one movement.
This slasher cuts up the slabs into lengths suitable for lath or fence-pickets.
They put the wide lath board down upon a plank, and make a great many cracks in it with an axe.
In the pit where the other German had lain we buried the body of the deserter, and we found and repaired the little lath cross and set it up at the grave’s head.
I knew that farm, a blackened ruin like the castle beside it, with twolath crosses leaning crazily over sunken graves in the dooryard.
In the little garden under the terrace was a lath and plaster lean-to.
A week after his appointment to the Lieutenancy he wrote to Cecil, to suggest the replacement of a lath fence, which ran past the Bloody tower gate, by a brick wall, as 'more safe and convenient.
With these words Yussuf drew his sword, and exhibited a lath of palm-wood.
When commanded to take off the head of a criminal, if he is guilty, the sword will flash like fire, and never fail; but should he be innocent, it will become a harmless lath of wood.
Turning the key in the lock he carefully felt the walls separating him from the adjoining room--as he suspected, lath and plaster!
Two pieces of lath slightly tacked under the opposite side of the hole to prevent the lid falling through till trodden on, and he lowered the flap on its hinges.
He put one of the pieces of lathacross a corner of the opening as he spoke, and rested the flap on that.
This magnificent entrance having been covered with lath and plaster, and for long completely forgotten, was unearthed by, and at the expense of Bishop Barrington, early in the present century.
Its interior was faced with lathand plaster, a plaster ceiling and a boarded floor being added.
Change eachlath as you come to it, and when your first furrow is completed your second row will be all marked out.
Drive the horses so that the middle of the evener will just come to the lath, then change the lath over its own length, if the rows are to be four feet apart, and that will mark the next row.
Each end of the top lath has similar pieces of leather sewed on, for the cords by which the cheek is to be suspended.
If lined inside, nail perpendicular lath to the lining 16 inches from centres, and on this lath horizontally for plastering.
Our thin lath and plaster constructions, which rattle and tremble in every wind and leak in every rain, do not afford very good or permanent centers for these associations and affections.
If the lath is proved to be out, it must at once be sent to a joiner to be accurately 'shot,' and the accuracy of both its edges must then be tested with a thread.
It may be a modified form of "lath," for in an early form of lathe the rotation is given by a treadle or spring lath attached to the ceiling.
At Great Falls there are four saws, also four more a few miles up the river, and four shingle and four lath machines.
There are only nine lath machines, which, as is reported, for want of material, cut only about two hundred and fifty thousand to a machine.
Of lath machines there are six reported, capable, under favorable circumstances, of cutting one million pieces per annum to a machine.
The mills are principally located at Cherryfield, where are fifteen saw and eight lath mills, three shingle and one clap-board machine.
At Sacarappa, on the Presumpscot, there are six saws for long lumber, two shingle and two lath machines.
A handful of shingle or lath nails and a clump of osier sprouts will make a full outfit of stretchers for a temporary camp.
Such iron ribs, with the brick arches or other masonry between them, might well form the finish of the ceilings, and if we were accustomed to see them, our frail lath and plaster would seem stale, flat and combustible in comparison.
It was-- a decorative fern basket inside a small lath house adjoining the home of Mrs. A.
The lath house, sixteen by twenty-four feet in size, was filled with a luxuriant growth of cultivated plants.
My soldier dad taught me the manual of arms, and for a year Harriet and I carried broom-sticks, flourished lath sabers, and hammered on dishpans in imitation of officers and drummers.
Lath swords and tin-pan drums remained a part of our equipment for a year or two.
Busy saws clamored from the islands and great rafts of planks and lath and shingles were made up and floated down into the Mississippi and on to southern markets.
He stepped back and almost went off of the floor and stepped on the lath and plaster between the joists.
Part of it was floored over and part of it was just joists with the lath and plaster showing on the under side.
Lath put on in lattice fashion will make a good covering for them, but it will not be strong enough to insure durability in itself, hence the necessity of a more substantial framework.
I would advise planing the strips of lath and giving the frames a coat of green or white paint before putting them in place.
Lambert hath written at large in his description of Kent, and placed the same in the Lath of sainct Augustine and hundred of Kingslow, as may easilie be seene to him that will peruse it.
In this also is a towne called Hertie, or Hartie, and all in the Lath of Scraie, notwithstanding that Hartie lieth in the hundred of Feuersham, and Shepey reteineth one especiall Bailie of hir owne.
Lath kell, that runneth by Ouerhaddon, and the Bradford, both in one bottome after they be ioined in one at Alport.
From which speech in like sort some deriue the word Laistow, as if it should be trulie written Lath stow, a place wherein to laie vp or laie on things, of whatsoeuer condition.
