Definition of "lathing" [lath•ing]

• The act or process of building with laths. (noun)
• Work made of laths. (noun)
• A quantity of laths. (noun)

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• "Raised on the tough streets of East Cleveland, Eugene decided that mob life offered more money and excitement than the lathing and plastering trades he had learned from his uncles."
• "I spend time making spinners, spinner rigs and lathing crank baits."
• "Constructed of mud and dried cow dung packed over a lathing of twigs, each hut is twenty by twenty feet square and six feet high."