Crossword clues for batten
batten
- Secure mesh mounted below nocturnal thing
- Fasten securely
- "___ down the hatches!"
- '-- down the hatches!'
- Strip on a ship
- Securing strip
- Secure, as hatches, with "down"
- Secure a hatch, with "down"
- Piece of lumber used for flooring (Brit.)
- Hatch fastener
- Cover, as hatches
- Cover the hatches, with "down"
- Close securely (with "down")
- "__ down the hatches!"
- -- down the hatches
- Close securely, with "down"
- Wooden reinforcing strip
- Secure tightly, with "down"
- Secure, with "down"
- A strip fixed to something to hold it firm
- Supporting strip of wood or metal
- Overfeed
- Fasten canvas on the hatchway
- Shipbuilder's strip of wood
- Hatch fastening
- Grow fat
- ___ down (make secure)
- Go in with five by two strengthening strip
- Strip of wood
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lathe \Lathe\ (l[=a][th]), n. [OE. lathe a granary; akin to G. lade a chest, Icel. hla[eth]a a storehouse, barn; but cf. also Icel. l["o][eth] a smith's lathe. Senses 2 and 3 are perh. of the same origin as lathe a granary, the original meaning being, a frame to hold something. If so, the word is from an older form of E. lade to load. See Lade to load.]
A granary; a barn. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.(Mach.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool.
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The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten.
Blanchard lathe, a lathe for turning irregular forms after a given pattern, as lasts, gunstocks, and the like.
Drill lathe, or Speed lathe, a small lathe which, from its high speed, is adapted for drilling; a hand lathe.
Engine lathe, a turning lathe in which the cutting tool has an automatic feed; -- used chiefly for turning and boring metals, cutting screws, etc.
Foot lathe, a lathe which is driven by a treadle worked by the foot.
Geometric lathe. See under Geometric
Hand lathe, a lathe operated by hand; a power turning lathe without an automatic feed for the tool.
Slide lathe, an engine lathe.
Throw lathe, a small lathe worked by one hand, while the cutting tool is held in the other.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"strip of wood (especially used to fasten canvas over ships' hatches)," 1650s, anglicized variant of baton "a stick, a staff" (see baton). Nautical use attested from 1769.
"to improve; to fatten," 1590s, probably representing an English dialectal survival of Old Norse batna "improve" (cognates: Old English batian, Old Frisian batia, Old High German bazen, Gothic gabatnan "to become better, avail, benefit," Old English bet "better;" also see boot (v.)). Related: Battened; battening.
"to furnish with battens," 1775, from batten (n.); phrase batten down recorded from 1823. Related: Battened; battening.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding. 2 (context intransitive English) To feed (term: on); to revel (term: in). 3 (context intransitive English) To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously. 4 (context intransitive English) To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously. 5 (context intransitive English) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat. 6 (context transitive English) To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding. 7 (context transitive English) To fertilize or enrich, as land. Etymology 2
n. 1 A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point. 2 (context nautical English) A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc., used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat. 3 In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater. 4 The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof. vb. 1 To furnish with battens. 2 (context nautical English) To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.
WordNet
n. stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber [syn: batting]
a strip fixed to something to hold it firm
v. furnish with battens; "batten ships" [syn: batten down, secure]
secure with battens; "batten down a ship's hatches"
Wikipedia
Batten has multiple meanings in construction and shipbuilding but is generally a strip of solid material, historically made from wood but can also be made from plastic, metal, or fiberglass. In a sense used in flooring a batten may be relatively large, up to thick by wide and more than long.
In the steel industry, battens used as furring may also be referred to as "top hats", in reference to the profile of the metal.
In theater, a batten (also known as a bar or pipe) is a long metal pipe suspended above the stage or audience from which lighting fixtures, theatrical scenery, and theater drapes and stage curtains may be hung. Battens that are located above a stage can usually be lowered to the stage (flown in) or raised into a fly tower above the stage (flown out) by a counterweighted fly system or automated, motor-driven lift.
A batten is a piece of construction material.
Batten may also refer to:
- Batten (car), a British automobile produced in the 1930s
- Batten (theater), a horizontal pole from which lights, props or curtains may be hung
- Batten Disease, also known as Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
- BBDO, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, an American advertising agency
- Mount Batten, an outcrop of rock at Plymouth Sound in England
- Batten Kill, a tributary of the Hudson River in the U.S. states of New York and Vermont
- Batten Kill Railroad
The Batten was a British car made in Beckenham, Kent between 1935 and 1938 based on the 1932 Ford Model 18 V-8. The cars were successfully campaigned in trials and racing events.
Of the several Anglo-American hybrid cars produced in the late 1930s the Batten probably had the highest performance. The car used a Ford chassis shortened by 16 inches (400 mm) and narrowed at the rear with the transverse spring suspension retained on most cars but reset. The 3622 cc V-8 engine was tuned and with the car weighing only 2180 pounds (940 kg) in its most basic form, a top speed of over 100 mph (160 km/h) was easily obtained.
Early cars had very basic racing bodies but retained several Ford panels including the radiator grille. Later cars got progressively more civilised and stylish.
About ten cars were made in total.
People named Batten include:
- Adrian Batten, English (Anglican) composer.
- Ann Batten, New Zealand politician.
- Billy Batten, English rugby league footballer.
- Charles Lynn Batten, an associate professor at University of California, Los Angeles.
- Chris Batten, bassist and a vocalist for the English post-hardcore band Enter Shikari.
- Cyia Batten, an American dancer and actor.
- Eric Batten, English rugby league footballer
- Frank Batten, namesake of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
- Frederick Batten, an English neurologist and pediatrician.
- George Batten (disambiguation)
- Gerard Batten, member of the European Parliament.
- Guin Batten, rowing champion, younger sister of Miriam.
- Herman Batten, Canadian politician.
- James Batten, chief executive officer of Knight-Ridder publishing.
- Jean Batten, was a New Zealand aviator.
- John Batten, English international rugby union player .
- John Dickson Batten, painter and book illustrator
- John H. Batten, see John H. Batten Airport
- Jennifer Batten, a guitarist and author.
- Joseph Batten, English academic administrator.
- Karen Lee Batten, a country music singer.
- Kim Batten, retired female American champion hurdler.
- Miriam Batten, winner of gold at the 1998 World Rowing Championships.
- Norman Batten, an American racecar driver.
- Peter Batten, British actor and voice-actor.
- Ray Batten, English rugby league footballer
- Shawn Batten, an American soap opera actress.
- Susan Batten, American soap opera actress.
- William Batten, a British sailor, son of Andrew Batten, a master in the Royal Navy.
Usage examples of "batten".
That looks as though they were battening down the hatches for the next big engagement.
After that I fell deeply asleep and dreamed of pale-faced men like maggots and gorgeously-clad women in silk dresses that rose behind them like glittering wings, living in a carcase and battening on its rich rotting meat.
Bay the weather worsened steadily, and at last it came to be a choice between battening down the hatches both forward and aft, or being incontinently swamped.
So from the moment of battening down, the gas which oozed from the coal mixed with the air till the whole ship became one huge explosive bomb, which the merest spark would touch off.
When the echo of the wooden hammer battening the hatch had died, John heard breathing and movement around him.
If you were not all skunks and cowards youd be suffering with them instead of battening here on the plunder of the poor.
Tightly as he had nailed and battened the tar-paper to the shanty, blizzard winds had torn it loose and whipped it to shreds, letting in the snow at sides and roof.
Nevertheless, after two days of being battened down in the hold with the women back to their old habits, Jenny took every opportunity to exercise that she could, sometimes with Melia but more often alone.
Sent herself to Prince Conrig in Cala, she had her trusted slave Wix build a goodly fire in her sitting room and batten up the shutters on all the windows.
The topgallantmasts had already been struck, the hatches battened down, deadlights shipped and the boats on the booms double-griped.
Batten, who for two years previously had attempted, and partially succeeded in making, a print from wood and metal blocks with colour mixed with glycerine and dextrine, the glycerine being afterwards removed by washing the prints in alcohol.
In Hope, and in all the other communities of Endpoint, the hatches were firmly battened down as the wind and rain hammered the buildings.
He is taken up by old women of the type batten on young fags, toothless old predators too weak and too slow to run down other prey.
Kofi had retracted the flybridge, battening down for the storm, but it was easy enough to tell the computer to open the main hatch, which was nearly flush with the dorsal surface.
He knew that Louisa would still be battened down below, and even if by some miracle she escaped from the gundeck the chains around her ankles would drag her under as soon as she went over the side.