Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation of fixing to a wall battens, to which are to be nailed laths to receive plastering.
- noun The battens fixed to a wall for this purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
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- verb Present participle of
batten .
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Examples
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So as the winds pick up, we're going to keep kind of battening down the hatches.
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Right now, the park bears all the hallmarks of getting ready for a festival, rather than battening down for a riot.
European day of protests and strikes: live updates Matthew Weaver 2010
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A few older men hurried home with hastily purchased groceries, battening down for a siege.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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A few older men hurried home with hastily purchased groceries, battening down for a siege.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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A lot of them do have the ability to refuse the money, because they could survive the downturn the crisis by simply battening down the hatches.
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As in previous downturns, graduates bore the brunt of this recession as employers cancelled recruitment programmes and deferred job offers before battening down the hatches.
Graduate jobs storm back Ian Wylie 2010
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I'm in a bit of tunnel, workwise, so it's a case of battening down the hatches.
Urgh. karenmiller 2009
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And that's as exciting as it gets because thereafter, despite that titular quote from The Tempest and all that suggestive battening down of hatches, Petronio delivers a flat calm.
Stephen Petronio Company; Onegin – review Luke Jennings 2010
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The British government's policies are locked in the same impotent stasis as the rest of the world's – battening down the hatches, cutting public spending and borrowing, and refusing to accept realities.
Observer editorial: Our leaders need to seize control of the crisis 2011
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No purchasing of luxuries for us, we are battening down the hatches and it's all "great depression" talk around here.
single gal seeks stimulation Another Outspoken Female 2009
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