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 tiles, rails, and panels like wainscot; but are made to appear as if they were, by means of these battens, bradded on the plain board round the edges, and sometimes crofs them, and up and down.