Lath

You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut.

Nevertheless, timber, with lath and plaster, and thatch for the roofs, constituted the chief materials in the dwellings of the English from an early period till near the close of the fourteenth century and beginning of the fifteenth, when bricks began to be used in the better sort of houses.

"You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."

The rubble waits him, sloping up to broken rear walls in a clogging, an openwork of laths pointlessly chevroning-flooring, furniture, glass, chunks of plaster, long tatters of wallpaper, split and shattered joists […].

Lanna says about wishing she was bigger in the chest and I goes that I had nothing to beat there and I was thin as a lat.