battens

Meaning of battens

noun
  1. A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
  2. 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.

Information about battens

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of battens is: batten.
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Hyphenation of battens

bat-tens

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • battens is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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