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___ down (make secure)
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batten
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In theater, a batten (also known as a bar or pipe ) is a long metal pipe suspended above the stage or audience from which lighting fixtures , theatrical scenery , and theater drapes and stage curtains may be hung. Battens that are located above a stage ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding. 2 (context intransitive English) To feed (term: on); to revel (term: in). 3 (context intransitive English) To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It will be necessary to batten the ceiling to take the new boards. ▪ Scholars will be battening on the footnotes for years to come. ▪ She could do nothing but batten down the conversational hatches and wait until the storm ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"strip of wood (especially used to fasten canvas over ships' hatches)," 1650s, anglicized variant of baton "a stick, a staff" (see baton ). Nautical use attested from 1769.
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.