Fixing is on to timber battening, and because of their weight, manufacturers' instructions should be followed closely.

It had hardened without foot- or paw-print and stretched pale and virginal up the side of the house, the only imperfection being a small superfluous 'tab' where a sliver of wet cement had oozed through the battening.

The house was all battened down because I kept it that way.

He starts using terms like that, its time to batten down.

Like the other houses on the street, it was dark and battened down.

It was a house battened down against the coming of disaster.

Between them they battened down all the doors and windows.

Having finished battening down for the storm, most are inside.

I was surprised when the fire first broke out and we battened down.

"Then there's nothing you can do but batten down and weather it!"

We had just time enough to batten down the hatches.

But I think we had better batten down against the worst."

Indeed, it appears to be battened down inside the hull.

She tried to move back the heavy hatch but it had been battened down.

Over the years so much had been battened down.

I hope that before the summit, people will not have battened down their national budgets.

Her hatches are battened down and she's ready for sea.

"You'll have the hatches battened down and your men ready by then?"

Because this was a short haul, most of the gear had been kept battened down pretty well.

The hatch had been closed but not battened down in the confusion.

For everyone else, it is time to start battening down the hatches.

It will be necessary to batten the ceiling to take the new boards.

I wanted to close all the windows and doors, batten them down, try to preserve something of her.

Eventually, I get up to batten down the hatches - too late.

Then we battened down the hatches and made some soup.

I noticed that the windows of my hut had been battened down.

Do you batten down the hatches or flee for your life?

Batten started writing when she was around the age of 7 or 8.

The original house is to the right of the batten.

It has also been proposed as a possible treatment for Batten disease.

The board is then cut to size and screwed on to the battens.

Do battens need to be treated in any way before fixing?

Batten won his first and only international cap for England in 1874.

When looking at the front of the house there is a batten between the first and second widows from the left.

Accordingly, Batten is less well known than some of his contemporaries.

It can be held in place by the battens.

Still no one answered and Batten was encouraged by their silence.

The style of architecture used for the new buildings was board and batten.

The track or pole could then be screwed into the batten.

"Whoever it was came and looked up at me," Batten recalls.

Batten retired at the end of the 2001 season.

The left hand was used to operate the batten that compressed the pick.

If this is the case the whole roof covering and battens will need to be replaced.

The top batten is heavier and similar to a gaff.

The mainsail does not have a boom, and has full battens.

The battens also help to smooth the flow of air at the mast.

Elements of the set which are relatively flat or light can be flown in on battens.

In other words, for every foot of arbor travel, the batten travels two feet.

Most have a high batten allowing for a large roach in the sail.

Batten gave Hall the nickname John, which she used the rest of her life.

At a news conference tonight, she then looked at Batten, whose world record is 52.61 seconds.

You then remove the batten, using the first row of tiles as the guide for the second, and so on.