This wire, nailed over the face of the old plaster will also reinforce any loose lath or plaster after the walls have set. Float the wall to the face of the lath first.

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society — ISO 4 abbreviated title

Half of the unit was preparing for some training exercise, apparently a route-march carrying full kit.

But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.