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   batten

   /ˈbatn/

   noun

   • 1. a long flat strip of squared timber or metal used to hold something in place or as a fastening against a wall.
   • ▪ a strip of wood or metal for securing a tarpaulin over a ship's hatchway.
   • ▪ a strip of wood or plastic used to stiffen and hold the leech of a sail out from the mast.

   verb

   • 1. strengthen or fasten (something) with battens: "Stephen was battening down the shutters"

   Word Origin late 15th century: from Old French batant, present participle (used as a noun) of batre ‘to beat’, from Latin battuere.

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   What is Batten noun?

   • Definition of batten noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary a long narrow piece of wood that is used to keep other building materials in place on a wall or roof Topics Buildings c2 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.

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   What does a batten do?

   • A batten is a long strip of wood that is fixed to something to strengthen it or to hold it firm. ...a batten to support the base timbers. If something is battened in place, it is made secure by having battens fixed across it or being closed firmly. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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   What does Batten a leech mean?

   • 1. To become fat. 2. To thrive and prosper, especially at another's expense: "[She] battens like a leech on the lives of famous people, ... a professional retailer of falsehoods" (George F. Will). To fatten; overfeed. [Ultimately from Old Norse batna, to improve; see bhad- in Indo-European roots.] n. 1. Nautical a.

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   What is a batten door?

   • The door was constructed of heavy pieces of split timber, joined to the cross-sections, or battens with wooden pins. It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. It filtered through the crevice of a small batten shutter. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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   How to use batten in a sentence. What Is the Origin of Batten to grow fat; to feed gluttonously; to grow prosperous especially at the expense of another —usually used with on…

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   10 meanings: 1. a sawn strip of wood used in building to cover joints, provide a fixing for tiles or slates, support lathing,.... Click for more definitions.

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   bat•ten 2. (ˈbæt n) n. 1. a small board or strip of wood used for various building purposes, as to cover joints between boards, reinforce doors, or supply a foundation for lath. 2. a. a strip of wood used to keep a sail flat. b. a length of wood or metal used on a ship, esp. to secure a tarpaulin over a hatch. v.t.

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   A batten is a long strip of wood that is attached to something to strengthen it or to hold it firm. 2. If something is battened in place, it is made secure by having battens attached across it or by being closed firmly.

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