lathen

comparative more lathen · superlative most lathen

1. Made from a lath or laths.

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   Shortly before ten o'clock a numerous cortège, consisting of a troop of horse in their full equipments, a band of archers with their bows over their shoulders, and a long train of barefoot monks, who had been permitted to attend, set out from the abbey. Behind them came a varlet with a paper mitre on his head, and a lathen crosier in his hand, covered with a surcoat, on which was emblazoned, but torn and reversed, the arms of Paslew […]

   1848, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches

1. A municipality in Emsland district, Lower Saxony, Germany.