Crossword-Solution: LATHING 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The hard-tramped, circular, earthen floor gave the size and form; the numerous fragments of burnt clay forming a layer over the floor--often taken by explorers for brick-revealed the method of plastering their dwellings; the charred remains of grass and twigs showed that it had been strengthened by this admixture; the impressions left on the inner face of these lumps of burnt plastering revealed the character of the lathing, which was in some cases branches and twigs, but in others split cane.

Then it noticed that the wall opposite was ragged with loosened wall-paper and in places stripped of plaster, so that the lathing showed through, and that in its own head--no, in the room beyond the wall--an impatient stamping noise of iron on wood was occurring at intervals.

Columns are also fire-proofed by wrapping expanded metal or other metal lathing around them and plastering.

The space beneath was about a foot in depth--the lower level being the lathing and plastering of the room below.

Barnes' church, for my building; have hired two carpenters to do the inside work, it having been framed, shingled, enclosed, and most of the lathing done, by the Tuscaroras.