0 past simple and past participle of batten
They were confined to the engine-room and stokehold, which were battened down, living on sodden hardtack and raw stockfish.
New concepts were battened onto preexisting norms.
In the case of slum property, where landlords have battened on the housing problem, the property should be taken over and site value paid.
Where extensive war damage had been done to roofs, these were to be covered with tarpaulins, or roofing felt well battened down.
Areas of the prison are literally battened down at night and nobody ventures in.
I hope that before the summit, people will not have battened down their national budgets.
Meanwhile, we have battened down the hatches and the ship remains on course.
I also noticed in one of the accounts that 200 of the deportees were battened down below and were unable to get out.
