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- Batten - v. t. - To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
- Batten - v. t. - To fertilize or enrich, as land.
- Batten - v. i. - To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
- Batten - n . - A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc.
- Batten - v. t. - To furnish or fasten with battens.
- Batten - v. t. - The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
- Battened - imp. & p. p. - of Batten
- Battening - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Batten
- Battening - n. - Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
- Pocket - n. - A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- Heddle - n. - One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.
- Reed - n. - A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.