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• It's time to batten down the hatches and prepare for the coming challenge.From the entry batten down the hatches
• The batten parrels are best made of large diameter polypropylene line because it slides well.2007, Derek Van Loan, The Chinese Sailing Rig: Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig, 2nd edition, Paradise Cay Publications, page 64. From the entry parrel
• The use of timber battens as screeds makes it easy to get the floating coat flat.1991, Robert Matthews, “Plastering”, in Practical House Building: A Manual for the Selfbuilder, Leicester, Leicestershire: Blackberry…. From the entry screed
• I suspect it will take an ooch or two on the boom to get the upper batten to clear.1999 June, Chuck Paine, “Design”, in Yachting, volume 185, number 6, page 56. From the entry ooch
• Bull fixed the claw under a batten, strained like a sailor at the capstan, shirt off, arms chevroned by elaborate tattoos.1983, Allen Sillitoe, The Lost Flying Boat, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry chevron
• The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry sepulchre
• The batten is next taken off the ship and laid on the timber from which the forehood is to be cut.1919, William Henry Curtis, The Elements of Wood Ship Construction. From the entry forehood
• Andrews cross formed by battens 2 feet in length.1917, United States. Office of Naval Intelligence, O.N.I. Publications, page 17. From the entry dan
• The outboard bales in each tier should be placed on their edges so that their flats will be presented to the sweat battens.2024, Robert J. Meurn, Marine Cargo Operations. From the entry flat
• Their parents soon become the most ingenious babyproofers alive, and live, for these hectic two years, in houses that are battened down like ships.2001, Holly Bennett, Teresa Pitman, The toddler years: from 1 to 3. From the entry babyproofer
• Junks have a deck and high masts, most commonly three, with four-cornered, coarse cotton sails, called lugsails, braced flat by bamboo strips or battens.1993, Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, volume 15, page 139. From the entry lugsail
• After all items were battened down and luggage given a protective cover of feed sacks, duckmen and ducks rolled out in comparative quiet.1958, John L. Peyton, Fay Mackenzie Peyton, The Magazine of Ducks and Geese, volumes 9-10, page 24. From the entry duckman
• Pantiles made from Bridgwater Clay must not be torched or underpointed, but the roof should be boarded and felted, battened and counterbattened.1938, The Architect & Building News - Volume 153, page xlv. From the entry underpoint
• The most suitable material has proved to be the seconds or thirds types of Welsh slate laid on stout battens and well underpointed in haired mortar, gauged with cement.1933, Surveyor - Volume 84, page 318. From the entry underpoint

Meaning of batten

1. verb To cause (an animal, etc.) to become fat or thrive through plenteous feeding; to fatten.
2. verb To enrich or fertilize (land, soil, etc.).
3. verb To become better; to improve in condition; especially of animals, by feeding; to fatten up.

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How do you use batten in a sentence?

Batten is used as a verb, adjective and noun. For example: “It's time to batten down the hatches and prepare for the coming challenge.”

What is a short sentence with batten?

“Robber barons who battened on the poor”

What does batten mean?

Batten means to cause (an animal, etc.) to become fat or thrive through plenteous feeding; to fatten.