batten - use in sentences

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: down_obj

  • 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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