batten
bat·ten (bat′'n)
noun
- a sawed strip of wood, flooring, etc.
- a strip of wood put over a seam between boards as a fastening or covering
- a short piece of wood or plastic inserted in a sail to keep it taut
- a strip of steel or wood used to fasten canvas over a ship's hatchways
Etymology: var. of baton
transitive verb
- to fasten with battens
- to supply or strengthen with battens
batten down the hatches
to fasten canvas over the hatches, esp. in preparing for a storm
bat·ten (bat′'n)
intransitive verb
- to grow fat; thrive
- to be well fed or wealthy at another's expense
Etymology: ON batna, improve < IE base *bhad-, good > better
transitive verb
to fatten up; overfeed
bat·ten (bat′'n)
noun
in a loom, the movable frame that presses into place the threads of a woof
Etymology: Fr battant, orig. prp. of battre < OFr: see batter
Object
- door: Line with boards to match ground floor and provide new ledge and battened doors to match existing with T hinges and Suffolk latches.
Converse of object
- fix: Fix a batten to the floor to fill the gap under an integral garage door.
Adjective modifier
- counter: The fixing of counter battens through any form of board is not easy.
- wooden: The tiles can be clipped onto a 8mm diameter steel rod, rope or nailed onto a wooden batten.
- vertical: Brick walls to the back garden can also be topped using trellis panels fixed to vertical battens.
- horizontal: A cradle consists of vertical battens stuck to the back of the panel, through which horizontal battens are slid.
- additional: This may require an additional counter batten to be fixed to the top or bottom of the rafter to increase the insulation space.
- top: Fiber cement ridge tiles tend to be screwed along the outside edges into the top battens on each roof slope.
Modifies a noun
- cavity: In this instance it is not possible to install an over fascia vent to vent the batten cavity.
- nail: Now all steel batten nails should be supplied to the new standard.
Modifying Another Word
- fully: Once out at sea, the crew seemed to be taking a very long time to raise her fully battened mainsails.
Noun used with modifier
- timber: Where the timbers do not line up with your fixings, you can use a suitably sized timber batten to bridge between them.
- ridge: The ridge tile should be neatly drilled in the center to allow the fixing to pass through into the ridge batten or board below.
- slate: For cutting the shorter edge I used a piece of slate batten.
- tile: Mark a 120 x 180mm wide rectangle on the underlay directly below the tile batten where the vent is to be fixed.
- counter: This needs to be checked before the first piece of underlay or counter batten is fitted.
- valley: This will encourage water on the main roof slope underlay to drain down the side of the valley batten.
Followed by a transitive particle
- down: Grand tours: Batten down the hatches, it's coming on to blow.. .
Particle object:
- hatch: Grand tours: Batten down the hatches, it's coming on to blow.. .
Followed by an intransitive particle
- down: We have a very short window to batten down our systems.
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