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Lacing vs Batten - What's the difference?

lacing | batten |

As verbs the difference between lacing and batten

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

As nouns the difference between lacing and batten

is that lacing is that with which something is laced while batten is a thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.

lacing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That with which something is laced.
    • A light lacing of rum goes into the cake batter.
  • The tied laces that form a netlike pattern.
  • A beating as punishment; a hiding.
  • * 1964 , Tom Pyle, ?Beth Day Romulo, Pocantico: Fifty Years on the Rockefeller Domain (page 168)
    • The Nelson family chauffeur, Ed, told me that Steven was missing. Ed was angry that the kid had run off, and he said when he got his hands on him he was going to give him a good lacing

    See also

    * shoelace

    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
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    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