Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word BATTENS
BATTENS
Definitions of BATTENS
- plural of batten.
- plural of Batten.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using BATTENS in a Sentence
- Straw man tactics in the United Kingdom may also be known as an Aunt Sally, after a pub game of the same name, where patrons throw sticks or battens at a post to knock off a skittle balanced on top.
- Vertical battens (aka firring strips) may be applied atop said sheathing; then OSB with a radiant barrier may be put atop the battens.
- Wooden battens were screwed onto the metal, to which the doped linen skin of the aircraft was fixed.
- Space above some proscenium stages may include a flyloft where curtains, scenery, and battens supporting a variety of lighting instruments may hang.
- Rat-boards are lower courses in a ratline, often made of slats of wood (battens) for support where the distance between shrouds is greatest.
- Prior to the 2003-2005 renovation, the "Old Barn" was still a "hemp house"- with steel pipe battens suspended from fiber ropes, counterweighted by canvas sandbags.
- Roofing battens or battening, also called roofing lath, are used to provide the fixing point for roofing materials such as shingles or tiles.
- The Negeri Sembilan Minangkabau, however, have adopted the Malay-style roof construction, with continuous ridge piece thatched with lengths of palm-leaf attached to battens.
- With the new computerised system, fifteen motors can be run simultaneously from a single control panel, operating the battens, the light deck and proscenium curtain, which reveals or hides the stage during intermissions and can be used in different opening styles (Austrian, Venetian, pleated or tableau).
- Damped panels, typically consisting of sheets of hardboard between glass fibre battens, have been used to absorb bass, by allowing movement of the surface panel and energy absorption by friction with the fibre battens.
- Depending on the roof covering material, either horizontal laths, battens, or purlins are fixed to the rafters; or boards, plywood, or oriented strand board form the roof deck (also called the sheeting or sheathing) to support the roof covering.
- The junk rig, also known as the Chinese lugsail, Chinese balanced lug sail, or sampan rig, is a type of sail rig in which rigid members, called battens, span the full width of the sail and extend the sail forward of the mast.
- The latter methods can distort the sail, and are not compatible with battens in the reefed or furled portion of the sail.
- Loftsmen at the mould lofts of shipyards were responsible for taking the dimensions and details from drawings and plans, and translating this information into templates, battens, ordinates, cutting sketches, profiles, margins and other data.
- The fuselage framework, lower wing and empennage were welded chromium-molybdenum alloy steel tubes faired with wooden battens, with the lower wing integral with the fuselage structure.
- On 4 February 1942, a US P-40 Kittyhawk, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Donald Harry Hunter from 3 Service Flying Training School (3 SFTS) RAAF at Amberley, crashed on the side of Battens Ridge.
- The early Scout was an extremely basic machine, which utilised Dacron sailcloth for the wing covering, lanyards and battens and an aluminium yacht mast as the wing spar.
- Himself hard-pressed by activists in his car, Börner, previously a learned roofer, at the time said that 40 years ago, he would have answered such attacks directed at his person — meaning the anti-airport-activists (the later Greens) — with "roof battens".
- The Lilley Road Bridge over the Lower River Rouge is an eight-panel Pratt camelback pony truss with an upper chord constructed from back-to-back channels tied by X-lacing, a lower chord constructed from channels with battens, and a floor of built-up I-beams riveted to superstructure.
- Soffits to the main roof are supported by long shaped soffit brackets and are lined with spaced pine battens.
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