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Fasten canvas on the hatchway
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batten
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lathe \Lathe\ (l[=a th]), n. [OE. lathe a granary; akin to G. lade a chest, Icel. hla[eth]a a storehouse, barn; but cf. also Icel. l["o eth] a smith's lathe. Senses 2 and 3 are perh. of the same origin as lathe a granary, the original meaning being, ...
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A batten is a piece of construction material. Batten may also refer to: Batten (car) , a British automobile produced in the 1930s Batten (theater) , a horizontal pole from which lights, props or curtains may be hung Batten Disease, also known as Neuronal ...
Usage examples of batten.
That looks as though they were battening down the hatches for the next big engagement.
After that I fell deeply asleep and dreamed of pale-faced men like maggots and gorgeously-clad women in silk dresses that rose behind them like glittering wings, living in a carcase and battening on its rich rotting meat.
Bay the weather worsened steadily, and at last it came to be a choice between battening down the hatches both forward and aft, or being incontinently swamped.
So from the moment of battening down, the gas which oozed from the coal mixed with the air till the whole ship became one huge explosive bomb, which the merest spark would touch off.
When the echo of the wooden hammer battening the hatch had died, John heard breathing and movement around him.
If you were not all skunks and cowards youd be suffering with them instead of battening here on the plunder of the poor.
Tightly as he had nailed and battened the tar-paper to the shanty, blizzard winds had torn it loose and whipped it to shreds, letting in the snow at sides and roof.
Nevertheless, after two days of being battened down in the hold with the women back to their old habits, Jenny took every opportunity to exercise that she could, sometimes with Melia but more often alone.
Sent herself to Prince Conrig in Cala, she had her trusted slave Wix build a goodly fire in her sitting room and batten up the shutters on all the windows.
The topgallantmasts had already been struck, the hatches battened down, deadlights shipped and the boats on the booms double-griped.
Batten, who for two years previously had attempted, and partially succeeded in making, a print from wood and metal blocks with colour mixed with glycerine and dextrine, the glycerine being afterwards removed by washing the prints in alcohol.
In Hope, and in all the other communities of Endpoint, the hatches were firmly battened down as the wind and rain hammered the buildings.
He is taken up by old women of the type batten on young fags, toothless old predators too weak and too slow to run down other prey.
Kofi had retracted the flybridge, battening down for the storm, but it was easy enough to tell the computer to open the main hatch, which was nearly flush with the dorsal surface.
He knew that Louisa would still be battened down below, and even if by some miracle she escaped from the gundeck the chains around her ankles would drag her under as soon as she went over the side.