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The act or process of covering with laths; laths, collectively; a covering of laths.

To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form. To box a tree, to make an incision or hole in a tree for the purpose of procuring the sap. -- To box off, to divide into tight compartments. -- To box up. (a) To put into a box in order to save; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To…

Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering.

Same as Lathing.

lege, or contract; -- often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.

Blue grass. -- Wire grub (Zoöl.), a wireworm. -- Wire iron, wire rods of iron. -- Wire lathing, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the place of wooden lathing for holding plastering. -- Wire mattress. See Wire bed, above. -- Wire micrometer, a micrometer having spider lines, or fine wires, across the field of t…