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  • present participle of lath.
  • present participle of lathe.
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lathing

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[lath-ing, lah-thing] / ˈlæθ ɪŋ, ˈlɑ θɪŋ /

noun

  1. the act or process of applying lath.

  2. a quantity of lath in place.

  3. material used as lath.


Etymology

Origin of lathing

First recorded in 1535–45; lath + -ing 1


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They talked amid the exposed plaster lathing for nearly an hour, then for half an hour more in the street out front.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017

For the first six to eight months, I worked at lathing the bottoms of cymbals.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2016

The painting is moving and I’m kind of standing still like a workman on his lathe, lathing a piece of wood.

From Forbes ● Sep. 24, 2014

The walls were stripped down to their lathing, and the new plaster was hand-buffed with beeswax, creating a sheen that, as Ms. Spellman points out, “looks incredible in candlelight.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2010

It was unavoidably necessary to re-lay the entire slate covering and to replace with new material the rotten spots in the lathing and planking.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various

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