All 3 Uses
lattice
in
Gulliver's Travels
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- 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 2lattice = regular crisscross grid that repeats in a pattern of squares or diamonds
- That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire lattices that defended them.†
Chpt 2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(lattice) regular crisscross pattern of lines or points that forms a repeating grid of squares or diamondsregular crisscross grid that repeats in a pattern of squares or diamonds
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)