Latte — meaning in English

English meaning

• batten noun A long, narrow strip of wood or metal used to strengthen, fasten, or hold something in place, especially in construction or on a ship.
• boner noun An embarrassing mistake or blunder.
• crossbar noun A bar that lies horizontally across something, such as a door or gate.
• fillet noun A boneless strip or piece of meat or fish.
• lath noun A thin strip of wood fixed to a building's frame to hold up plaster or tiles.
• pale adjective Light in color, or lacking the usual color, especially in the face.
• picket noun A person or group standing outside a workplace during a strike to protest and discourage others from entering.
• rod noun A straight, thin bar, stick, or pole made of wood, metal, or similar material.
• scantling noun The fixed size that a piece of wood, stone or building material must be cut to.
• wood noun The hard fibrous material that makes up the trunk and branches of a tree, used for building, fuel, and countless other purposes.

Senses

Latte is used for these senses in English:

• batten (carpentry, construction) A plank or strip of wood, or several of such strips arranged side by side, used in construction to hold members of a structure together, to provide a fixing point, to strengthen, or to prevent warping.
• batten (nautical) A long, narrow strip, originally of wood but now also of fibreglass, metal, etc., used for various purposes aboard a ship; especially one attached to a mast or spar for protection, one holding down the edge of a tarpaulin covering a hatch to prevent water from entering the hatch, one inserted in a pocket sewn on a sail to keep it flat, or one from which a hammock is suspended.
• boner (coarse, slang) An erect penis. [from mid-20th c.]
• crossbar (sports) The top of the goal structure.
• fillet (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
• hard-on (slang, vulgar) An erection of the penis.
• lath A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
• pale A wooden stake; a picket.

batten — full definition

1. noun A long, narrow strip of wood or metal used to strengthen, fasten, or hold something in place, especially in construction or on a ship.
2. verb To fasten or secure something firmly, typically with battens — especially in the phrase "batten down."
3. verb Followed by "on": to grow fat or prosper, often at someone else's expense.

boner — full definition

1. noun An embarrassing mistake or blunder.
2. noun Vulgar slang for an erect penis.

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