different between gyprock vs lath

English

Etymology

Blend of gypsum +? rock

Noun

gyprock (countable and uncountable, plural gyprocks)

1. Rock rich in gypsum; gypsic soil.
   • 1979, Richard Vincent Dietrich, Brian J. Skinner, Rocks and rock minerals, page 215

     Some high quality white or variously tinted fine-grained gyprocks, usually referred to as alabaster, were used as interior facing stones and for small statues and carved decorative objects found in Egyptian pyramids
2. Drywall.

Synonyms

• (drywall): Thesaurus:drywall

Verb

gyprock (third-person singular simple present gyprocks, present participle gyprocking, simple past and past participle gyprocked)

1. (construction, transitive) To drywall.

English

Alternative forms

• lat, latt (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English laththe, laþþe, earlier lathe, laþe, altered from Old English lætt (“lath”), from Proto-Germanic *latt?, *laþþ? (compare Dutch lat, German Latte) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lat- (compare Welsh llath (“rod, wand, yard”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

lath (plural laths)

1. 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.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     The rubble waits him, sloping up to broken rear walls in a clogging, an openwork of laths pointlessly chevroning-flooring, furniture, glass, chunks of plaster, long tatters of wallpaper, split and shattered joists […].

   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 21:

     Lanna says about wishing she was bigger in the chest and I goes that I had nothing to beat there and I was thin as a lat.

   Synonym: lath strap

Holonyms

• lattice

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Verb

lath (third-person singular simple present laths, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)

1. to cover or line with laths

Anagrams

• halt, thal