Also 6 lathe, 7–9 dial. lat. [f. LATH sb.] trans. To cover or furnish (a wall or ceiling) with laths for plastering. Also with over.
c. 1532. Du Wes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 949. To lathe with lathes, latter.
1575. Churchw. Acc. Stanford, in Antiquary, XVII. 171/1. It. for lathing & mending the churche howse mounds vd.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, I. xviii. 113. [The feasant] house shall be … thicke latted and of clouen boardes.
1641. Best, Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 148. After that an house is latted, the first thatch that is layd on woulde bee of rye-strawe.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Walls, Walls … being quarter’d and lath’d between the Timber, or sometimes lathed all over, they are plaister’d with Lome.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 110. When lathed over, the lath may be equally stiff to sustain the plaster.
1869. Daily News, 10 Sept., 4/5. The dining-rooms even of great county magnates in the sixteenth century were neither lathed nor plastered.
1886. S. W. Linc. Gloss., Latted, part., covered with laths: as ‘I’ll have it studded and latted.’
absol. 1663. Gerbier, Counsel, 79. To Lath and lay with Lime and haire.
1703. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 250. A Budget … to put their Nails in when they Lath.
Hence Lathed ppl. a. Also Lather, one who fixes laths or makes lath-work.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, V. 65. Like the plaster, or dawbe vnto the latted house.
1897. Daily News, 8 Dec., 4/4. By employing lathers to do the lathing work instead of plasterers.
