latticing
Americannoun
-
the act or process of furnishing with or making latticework.
-
(in a composite column, girder, or strut) lacing consisting of crisscross strips of wood, iron, or steel.
Etymology
Origin of latticing
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Its narrator is an Ohio housewife who reflects on her past, her family and her country while latticing cherry pies.
From BBC
We got a sense that this episode would be awkward, but the thread latticing the episode turned out to be much darker.
From Time
The windows, which in former times had been constantly broken with tennis balls in a game known as "shed cricket," were protected with wire latticing, and this served to obscure the struggling moonbeams which faintly illuminated the farther end of the building.
From Project Gutenberg
Our hostess was telling us about living in a hutong�one of the traditional residential alleys latticing China's capital in a dense network.
From Time Magazine Archive
They may see the scaffolding of the great shipyards latticing themselves against the sky, and the granite quarries against the hills.
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
