Dictionary Entry
batten
batten is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
- 2transitive verb
To fertilize or enrich, as land.
- 3intransitive verb
To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
- 4noun
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.
- 5transitive verb
To furnish or fasten with battens.
- 6transitive verb
The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
- 7noun
a strip fixed to something to hold it firm
- 8noun
stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber
Synonyms
- 9verb
secure with battens
"batten down a ship's hatches"
- 10verb
furnish with battens
"batten ships"
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