They were constructed inside of laths of areca, closely bound together, and fastened horizontally to a framework covered with grass thatch, a foot or more in thickness.
The laths or battens, fore and aft, are now lashed on, and the result is a less sightly but stronger and more durable roof for the exigencies of travel than the kap-tent.
The laths or battens, on the contrary, should be securely fastened to the central bows, so as to lift off with them, and only slightly to those at either end.
Flexible poles or laths are then stitched in for gunwales or thwart stringers, and the canoe is more or less tastefully trimmed off and ornamented, according to the taste of the builder, as in Fig.
When we have taken up the boards between the laths and plaster we have found the ceiling almost full of lump sugar, nuts, candles, etc.
And he said that perhaps her son, who travelled so far, might have seen a palace with laths of gold and tiles of diamond, and furnished all in silver and gold.
So he went boldly up to the moon, and asked if by any accident he had seen a palace with the laths of gold and the tiles of diamond, and all the furniture of silver and gold.
And he added that he had been shamefully robbed, and that the laths were of gold and the tiles of diamond, and all the furniture in silver and gold, and he inquired if the wind had not seen such a palace during his wanderings.
Build me a castle with laths of gold and tiles of diamond, and the furniture all of silver and gold.
I got to load these laths and that's all there is to it.
If anybody tells you heavin' bundles of laths aboard a truck-wagon ain't hard work you tell him for me he's a liar, will ye.
Stand in the very middle of the church, fenced round about with thy laths and boards, and take with thee a basket full of pears.
Then he made him laths and boards, put them on board the ship, took St Michael with him, and they departed.
When night came, he took up his laths and boards and a basket of pears, and went to the church.
Then they went on and on until they found him, and he took just the same laths and boards that he had had before, and went with them.
I will make me lathsand boards and take them with me," said he.
And, throwing back his head, he scanned the cobwebbed surface of laths which rested on the unceiled joists.
Tignonville cried; and leaping, with flaming eyes, on the bed, he fell to hacking and jabbing and tearing at the laths amid a rain of dust and rubbish.
The roofs are nearly flat, and are covered with shingles held on by laths and weighted with large stones.
Wood has disappeared, and all the houses are now built with heavy beams and walls of laths and brown mud mixed with chopped straw, and very neat.
Sawn laths such as builders use are perhaps the cheapest material that it is possible to get.
The space between the laths (or canvass) should be filled with shavings or saw-dust; and then no sound would ever pass from one room to another.
Along one side wall for its whole length was nailed a series of horizontal laths twelve inches apart.
By the time the unknown had reached the bottom of the ladder, Willis had stepped on to the cross laths and was descending by them.
It was painted in a tint that looks best of all in garden word--the gray of the echeveria glauca, and the blooms of a beautiful Aglaia rose were playing hide-and-seek among the laths of the roof.
We formed the walls of thin laths interwoven with long pliant reeds for about six feet from the ground; the rest was merely a sort of light trellis-work, to admit light and air.
I had taken refuge by the gate of the town, a puny barrier made of long laths painted yellow, nailed to cross laths and sharpened at the top.
We can take off the hinges and slide back the lid a little at a time, and nail some o' those laths over the front for bars.
Come on and help saw theselaths for the bars, Herman, and Sam and I'll nail 'em on.
The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.
Let the top of the table be made on the principle of Tunbridge Wells tea-kettle holders, or of laths of wood riveted on to a canvas back.
You will find a large bundle of laths in the material Jim sent out by the Freedom delivery-wagon.
We only need enough to form bases for us to nail the laths to.
The laths are easy to nail down and then the paper goes over that, you know.
The bottles are placed in a horizontal position and stacked in rows of varying length and depth, one above the other, to about the height of a man, and with narrow laths between them.
The concrete is then applied to these laths in six coats, three on each side, and termed respectively the scratch coat, the rough coat, and the fining coat.
The roof is composed of concrete slabs, reinforced with expanded metal laths and finished with cement and mortar.
When the picture is firmly fixed in its place, paste a piece of strong brown paper over the whole back of the picture and frame, covering the laths as well.
All angles to be formed and nailed solid by carpenter before laths are put on.
Laths to be best seasoned pine, free from all imperfections, laid ⅜″ apart and breaking joint.
On the bottom the laths are sometimes nailed on the outside and sometimes on the inside of the cross pieces.
The narrow strips of wood, generally ordinary house laths of spruce or pine, which form the covering, are nailed lengthwise to them, with interspaces between about equal to the width of the lathe.
The door is formed by three or four of the laths running the entire length near the top.
They acquire the name from the use of common laths in their construction.
A few pots are made with a funnel of laths in place of the net funnels.
A knife was quickly opened and handed to him: he severed the strong cords which bound one of the bundles of laths together, and they flew asunder, disclosing a long tin tube of considerable diameter, closely rammed with tobacco!
This had been done, and the laths marked as "passed.
Besides I might be wrong after all, and I had no right to presume that the officer who had passed the laths had not made a sufficient examination of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
