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Batten vs Glut - What's the difference?

batten | glut |

As nouns the difference between batten and glut

is that batten is a thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point while glut is heat, glow.

As a verb batten

is to become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding or batten can be to furnish with battens.

batten

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.
  • To feed (on); to revel (in).
  • * 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XIV:
    • The brain had its own food on which it battened , and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.
  • To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.
  • * Garth
    • The pampered monarch lay battening in ease.
  • * Emerson
    • Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history
  • To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
    • ''Robber barons who battened on the poor
  • To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.
  • To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
  • * Milton
    • battening our flocks
  • To fertilize or enrich, as land.
    • Derived terms
    * battner
    Related terms
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m),

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
  • (nautical) 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.
  • In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
  • The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with battens.
  • (nautical) To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.
    • Derived terms
    * batten down * batten down the hatches

    References

    * FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

    glut

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an excess, too much
    • a glut of the market
  • * Macaulay
    • A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Les Roopanarine , title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's. }}
  • That which is swallowed.
    • (Milton)
  • Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
  • A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
  • (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
    • (Raymond)
  • (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
    • (Knight)
  • (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
  • A block used for a fulcrum.
  • The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris ), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus

    Antonyms

    * lack * shortage

    Related terms

    * glutton * gluttony

    Verb

  • To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
    • to glut one's appetite
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
  • To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  • * Tennyson
    • Like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.

    References

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