All 3 Uses of
lattice
in
Gulliver's Travels
- This travelling-closet was an exact square, with a window in the middle of three of the squares, and each window was latticed with iron wire on the outside, to prevent accidents in long journeys.†
Chpt 2
- A breach in one single pane of glass would have been immediate death: nor could any thing have preserved the windows, but the strong lattice wires placed on the outside, against accidents in travelling.†
Chpt 2
- That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire lattices that defended them.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
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(lattice) an object or pattern made from crisscrossing two sets of lines -- leaving diamond- or square-shaped spaces where they do not overlap
or:
an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern