Batten

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English Meaning

  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).
  3. To fatten; overfeed.
  4. Nautical One of several flexible strips of wood or plastic placed in pockets at the outer edge of a sail to keep it flat.
  5. Nautical A narrow strip of wood used to fasten down the edges of the material that covers hatches in foul weather.
  6. Chiefly British A narrow strip of wood used especially for flooring.
  7. Nautical To furnish, fasten, or secure with battens: battened down the hatch during the storm.
  8. batten down the hatches To prepare for an imminent disaster or emergency.