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# lath

«lath» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thin, narrow strip of wood, used to make fences, walls…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (laths)

### meaning for a pupil

A lath is a thin, narrow strip of wood, used to make fences, walls, cages and roofs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lath/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories laths are wooden strips used to build cages or fences, and a man carries a bundle of them

### examples

- The wall was made of laths and plaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lath/#x1)
- She nailed the laths to the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lath/#x2)
- The bird cage was fixed with wooden laths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lath/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; counting laths means counting the pieces one by one.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lath» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lath/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.