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Lath vs Eath - What's the difference?

lath | eath |

As a noun lath

is a thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.

As a verb lath

is to cover or line with laths.

As an adjective eath is

easy; not hard or difficult.

As an adverb eath is

easily.

lath

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
    • * (English Citations of "lath")

    Synonyms

    * lath strap

    Holonyms

    : lattice

    Derived terms

    * lath strapping * lath brick - a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. * lath nail - a slender nail for fastening laths. * lath board * lath plaster * lath and plaster / plaster and lath * lathy

    See also

    * plaster * plasterboard * gypsum plaster * gypsum board * gyprock * sheetrock * wallboard * drywall * cement board

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or line with laths.

    • Anagrams

    *

    eath

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Easy; not hard or difficult.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XIX, lxi:
  • *:There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way.
  • *1609 , (Thomas Heywood), Troia Britanica, or Great Britain's Troy :
  • *:At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids.
  • *1847 , (Hugh Miller), First Impressions of England and its people :
  • *:There has been much written on the learning of Shakespeare but not much to the purpose: one of our old Scotch proverbs is worth all the dissertations on the subject I have yet seen. "God's bairns", it says, "are eath to lear",.

    • Antonyms

    * uneath * difficult

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Adverb

    (head)
  • Easily.
  • *1823 , J. Kennedy, Poems :
    • Their food and their raiment he eith can supply.

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)