Now only dial. Also 6 laythe, 6–7 lath, 7, 8 dial. leath, 9 dial. leathe, laith(e. [a. ON. hlađa (Sw. lada, Da. lade), connected with hlađa LADE v.] A barn.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 2134. To maken lađes and gaderen coren.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 4681 (Gött.). Wid win and corn, fless and mele, And [? read þai] fild þe lathes here and þar.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, III. 1050. For alle mote oute other late or rathe, Alle the sheves in the lathe.
c. 1425. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 670. Hoc orreum, lathe. Hoc granarium, idem est.
c. 1450. St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 7643. He gart bigg thaim in house and lathe.
c. 1550. Plumpton Corr. (Camden), 257. They ar threshing in the one lath beanes and barley both.
1605. Camden, Rem., 101. Lath, a Barne among them of Lincolnshire.
1781. J. Hutton, Tour to Caves, Gloss. 92. Leath, barn.
1847. E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights, I. ii. 16. ‘Goa rahnd by th’ end ut’ laith.’
1893. Peel, Spen Valley, 293. Garside’s old laithe stood about where Mr. Dawson’s shops now are.
b. attrib., as lathe-door, yard.
c. 1746. J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), View Lanc. Dial., Wks. (1862), 67. Just as i’r gett’n to th’ Leath Dur.
1891. Atkinson, Last of Giant Killers, 214. The fowls of the lathe-yards even had not been spared.
