lattice-work
Wood or metal work consisting of crossing strips with small openings; = lattice n. 1. Also, something resembling this.
| 1487 Will in Paston Lett. III. 465 A nother towell of latise werk. 1600 Surflet Country Farm 509 The latice worke or climing and running frames made for the vine. 1664 Power Exp. Philos. i. 25 The like curious Lattice⁓work I have also observ'd in the crustaceous Cornea of the Creckets Eye. 1784 Cowper Task i. 42 The cane..severed into stripes That interlaced each other, these supplied Of texture firm a lattice-work. 1838 Thirlwall Greece III. xx. 145 It..was guarded on either side by a strong lattice⁓work of forest timber. 1853 Sir H. Douglas Milit. Bridges (ed. 3) 340 The bow-and-tie construction is thought to be superior in strength to lattice-work..for a bridge. |