单词 | lath and plaster |
释义 | > as lemmaslath and plaster lath and plaster n. rhyming slang for ‘master’.extracted from lathn.lath and plaster b. collective. Laths as a material used in building (chiefly as a groundwork for a coating of plaster) to form a wall or partition. Frequently in lath and plaster (often written with hyphens, esp. when used attributively or quasi-adj.); rarely lath and clay. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > strip of wood > used in building > collectively lath1573 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > lath and plaster lath and plaster1719 calamanco1792 lath and clay1839 stooth-and-plaster1893 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15 A frower of Iron, for cleauing of lath. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 79 Ruff cast upon Lath..is worth eighteen pence the yard. 1715 M. Prior Down-Hall 152 A house should be built, or with brick, or with stone. Why 'tis plaster and lath. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 310 It was..a House built, as we call it in England, with Lath and Plaister. 1766 Griffith in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 274 A lath and plaister wall. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 42 A paltry screen, Of paper'd lath. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism viii. 72 Dons, Tons.., not a few..of burnt brick, of timber, of lath-and-clay. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xvi. 269 Buildings of lath and plaster. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xx. 496 Lath-and-plaster work. < as lemmas |
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