▪ I. lathing, vbl. n.1
(ˈlɑːθɪŋ, ˈlæ-)
Also 8 latting.
[f. lath v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. lath.
| 1544 Churchw. Acc. St. Giles, Reading 70 To a mason for lathyng [an]d dawbyng iiijd. 1663 Gerbier Counsel (1664) 78 Lathing is worth six pence the yard. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 372 By lathing is meant the nailing up laths..on the ceiling and partitions. |
2. concr. Lath-work.
| 1756 P. Browne Jamaica 342 The outward part of the trunk [of Cocoa Nut] is made into lattings. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 612 Lathing, laying, and set..is, when the work, after being lathed, is covered with one coat of lime and hair, and afterwards..a thin and smooth coat spread over it, consisting of lime only, or, as the workmen call it, putty, or set... Lathing, floating, and set..differs from the foregoing, in having the first coat pricked up to receive the set, which is here called the floating. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Lathing, small wooden bars to fix mortar in; bed staves for the centre-frame of a bedstead, to rest the bedding on. 1889 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 9 Thin lathing should be tacked on over the paper joints. 1891 Pall Mall G. 14 May 1/3 The plaster..is spread upon expanded metal lathing. |
3. Comb.: lathing hammer, † hatchet, a lather's hammer with a cutting peen for shortening laths; lathing saw, a saw for cutting iron laths; lathing staff (see quot. 1703).
| 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 249 A *Lathing Hammer..with which the Laths are nailed on with its head, and with its Edge they cut them to any length. |
| 1797 Trial of J. Dobbins, at Worcester, 3 A *lathing hatchet. |
| 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 223 *Lathing saws. |
| 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. (1807–8) II. 736 Hir husband [Iohn Tiler]..came running home with his *lathing staffe in his hand. 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 248 A Lathing Staff of Iron, in the form of a Cross, to stay the cross Laths while they are nailed to the long Laths, and also to clinch the Nails. |
▪ II. lathing, vbl. n.2 Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈleɪðɪŋ)
Also 1–3 laðung(e.
[f. lathe v. + -ing1.]
An invitation; a calling together. Also, a congregation.
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. lii. 405 Be ðære miltsunga æfter ðære laðunᵹa is swiðe wel ᵹesæd ðurh Essaias ðone witᵹan. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 93 And alle þeo ileafulle laðunge him ihersummede. c 1205 Lay. 5115 Þa makeden heo ane laðunge [c 1275 laþinge] of heore leoue folke. 1547 Salesbury Welsh Dict., Gwys gwahadd, lathyng, byddyng. 1611 Cotgr., Semonce, a bidding, lathing, inuiting. 1674 Ray N.C. Words 29 Lathing, entreaty or invitation: You need no lathing: You need no invitation or urging. 1746 Exmoor Scolding l. 189 (E.D.S.) Tha wut net look vor Lathing, chell warndy. 1857 Waugh Lanc. Life 54 ‘Come, poo a cheer up’, said he, ‘an' need no moor lathein’. |