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Batten Down

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Verb

1. batten, batten down, secure

furnish with battens

Example Sentences:
'batten ships'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Batten Down

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a. 
to use battens in nailing a tarpaulin over a hatch on a ship to make it secure
b. 
to prepare for action, a crisis, etc

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Batten Down

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to fasten canvas over the hatches, esp. in preparing for a storm

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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