Wood or metal work consisting of crossing strips with small openings; = LATTICE sb. 1. Also, something resembling this.
1487. Will, in Paston Lett., III. 465. A nother towell of latise werk.
1600. Surflet, Country Farm, 509. The latice worke or climing and running frames made for the vine.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 25. The like curious Lattice-work I have also observ’d in the crustaceous Cornea of the Creckets Eye.
1784. Cowper, Task, I. 42. The cane … severed into stripes That interlaced each other, these supplied Of texture firm a lattice-work.
1838. Thirlwall, Greece, III. xx. 145. It … was guarded on either side by a strong lattice-work of forest timber.
1853. Sir H. Douglas, Milit. Bridges (ed. 3), 340. The bow-and-tie construction is thought to be superior in strength to lattice-work … for a bridge.
