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Meanings of battens in English
Thin strips of material used in building construction; the process of installing such strips.
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Examples for "strapping"
Examples for "strapping"
1
They were strapping teenagers who had learned to notice, and fear, difference.
2
The forest we walked through now was really just a strapping adolescent.
3
We're strapping ourselves in when word comes across the radio from Marika.
4
He was tall and strapping, a seven-year veteran of the Special Forces.
5
He gave me a good strapping, and I went home in rebellion.
1
The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips.
2
Then a furring system is put on and another layer of metal, lathing and plastering.
3
Still, some men lived very well out of furring.
4
Vascular dementia, the artery-furring sort, is the second biggest dementia disease group by numbers of sufferers.
5
There the people were more densely settled, the hinterland was small, and many therefore could not go furring.
Usage of battens in English
1
A community that sees itself as under siege battens down the hatches.
2
Some of them had been strengthened with battens lashed transversely over the canvas.
3
Vietnam now battens down the hatches in preparation for Haiyan's landfall.
4
A stonemason and the bricklayer's gaffer are swiping at each other with battens.
5
He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.
6
The next morning, we took the battens from the hatches, and opened the ship.
7
The houses are generally built of grass walls, connected with thin battens of bamboo.
8
They turn poplar into conventional fence battens, battens for deer fencing and yarding rails.
9
When he dreamed, it was of saw-logs, battens and bottoms.
10
It is held up to the post by 3-inch screws passing through front and battens.
11
Answer: A house, the timbers that stand, the battens laid down, the grass and cords folded.
12
Musgrave's one object is to discover what he calls the truth; Herries thrives and battens upon illusions.
13
Of tacks and battens and protruded springs.
14
White perches and battens for first chorus.
15
Mrs. Herbert is one who battens on details, and she never spares her hearers a single item.
16
When the boys hung too heavily on the battens the baker would cry: Use your whole weight!
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