Usually means: Secured with strips for reinforcement.
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  1. battened: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. battened: Collins English Dictionary
  3. battened: Vocabulary.com
  4. battened: Wordnik
  5. battened: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. battened: Wiktionary
  7. Battened, battened: Dictionary.com
  8. Battened: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Battened: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. battened: Free Dictionary
  11. battened: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. battened: Encyclopedia

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  1. Battened: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Batten)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete)
verb:  To cause (an animal, etc.) to become fat or thrive through plenteous feeding; to fatten.
verb:  (rare) To enrich or fertilize (land, soil, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To become better; to improve in condition; especially of animals, by feeding; to fatten up.
verb:  Of land, soil, etc.: to become fertile; also, of plants: to grow lush.
verb:  (often passive voice) Followed by on: to eat greedily; to glut.
verb:  (figurative) Followed by on: to prosper or thrive, especially at the expense of others.
verb:  (figurative) To gloat at; to revel in.
verb:  (figurative) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving.
adjective:  (obsolete) Synonym of battle (“of grass or pasture: nutritious to cattle or sheep; of land (originally pastureland) or soil: fertile, fruitful”)
noun:  (carpentry, construction) A plank or strip of wood, or several of such strips arranged side by side, used in construction to hold members of a structure together, to provide a fixing point, to strengthen, or to prevent warping.
noun:  (specifically)
noun:  A strip of wood holding a number of lamps; especially (theater), one used for illuminating a stage; (by extension, also attributive) a long bar, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system and used to support curtains, scenery, etc.
noun:  (nautical) A long, narrow strip, originally of wood but now also of fibreglass, metal, etc., used for various purposes aboard a ship; especially one attached to a mast or spar for protection, one holding down the edge of a tarpaulin covering a hatch to prevent water from entering the hatch, one inserted in a pocket sewn on a sail to keep it flat, or one from which a hammock is suspended.
noun:  (weaving) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
verb:  To furnish (something) with battens (noun sense 1).
verb:  (chiefly nautical) Chiefly followed by down: to fasten or secure (a hatch, opening, etc.) using battens (noun sense 2.2).
noun:  A surname.
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