Usually means: Securing covers tightly against storms.
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  1. battening: Merriam-Webster
  2. battening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. battening: Collins English Dictionary
  4. battening: Vocabulary.com
  5. battening: Wordnik
  6. battening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. battening: Wiktionary
  8. Battening, battening: Dictionary.com
  9. Battening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. battening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Battening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. battening: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Battening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. battening: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (battening)

▸ noun:  (construction) Synonym of batten (“strip of wood used to hold things together or provide a fixing point”)

Similar:
secure, batten down, lashing, bondwork, bonding, binding, barring, fixing, castellation, arming, more...

Opposite:
unfastening, loosening, untethering

Types:
batten, more...

Phrases:
battening down, battening down the hatches, more...

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Similar:
secure, batten down, lashing, bondwork, bonding, binding, barring, fixing, castellation, arming, more...

Opposite:
unfastening, loosening, untethering

Types:
batten, more...

Phrases:
battening down, battening down the hatches, more...



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