lathy

adj

1. (archaic)Like a lath; long and slender.

   “The man was somewhat younger, but of a figure equally wild; his frame was long and lathy, but his arms were remarkably short, his neck was rather bent, he squinted slightly, and his mouth was much away; …”

   “In this way he was dragged out; and as he crept up the bank, with the wet pouring from his apparel, which now clung tightly to his lathy limbs, he was greeted by the jeers of Nicholas.”

   “And little lathy Charles with his long, narrow white face and obstinate chin, is no A B C of a boy.”

   “'Twas just a bit o' lathy old plank which Jim had throwed acrost the brook for his own conveniences.”

   “This one was tall and stocky, with a square head and fat nose; he looked more like a Negro than a lathy starving Indian […]”