BATTEN, a name that workmen give to a scantling of wooden stuff, from two to four inches broad, and about one inch thick; the length is pretty considerable, but undetermined.—This term is chiefly used in speaking of doors and windows of shops, &c. which are not framed of whole deal, &c. with stiles, rails, and panels like wainscot, but are made to appear as if they were by means of these battens braced on the plain board round the edges, and sometimes cross them, and up and down.