ˈlath-nail
A nail for fixing laths upon battens.
| 1388–9 Abingdon Acc. (Camden) 54 In latthes et latthe nayl vjs. 1422–3 Ibid. 97 In lathnail et bordnail emptis iijs. 1483–4 in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 33 For iiij ml. latez nayllez. 1509–10 Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 105 Pro vxx lattnalis. 1540 Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 3 Payd for borde nayle and lathe neale for the same cofer. 1667 H. Stubbe in Phil. Trans. II. 502, I heated a Lath-nail glowing hot. 1881 Young Every Man his own Mechanic §330 The lath nail..used for nailing laths to quartering. |