Mid-morning the builders came, climbed the scaffold, and the house began to shake and rattle as cedar shingles were ripped off, closely followed by old battening, and then, all of a sudden, there was no roof on the study.
At a verge on the North Street elevation, the battening to support the tiles had been cut short.
This arrives in the interspace between the box and the pavilion, which is roofed and partly clad in various degrees of battening.
They're all heaped up in two towering piles, along with the old battening.
Its vertical battening and large eaves evoke the Victorian cottages on Martha's Vineyard.
Definition of battening in US English:
battening
nounˈbat(ə)niNG
1The application or addition of battens.
Example sentencesExamples
On Monday the builders will come along and finish the battening, ready to accept the shiny new slates.
Then the builders donned roofing gear and started in on the long, long job of finishing the battening and laying new slate tiles on the back roof.
1.1A structure formed with battens.
板条结构
Example sentencesExamples
Its vertical battening and large eaves evoke the Victorian cottages on Martha's Vineyard.
At a verge on the North Street elevation, the battening to support the tiles had been cut short.
Mid-morning the builders came, climbed the scaffold, and the house began to shake and rattle as cedar shingles were ripped off, closely followed by old battening, and then, all of a sudden, there was no roof on the study.
They're all heaped up in two towering piles, along with the old battening.
This arrives in the interspace between the box and the pavilion, which is roofed and partly clad in various degrees of battening.