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batten |
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batten 1 Noun 1. a strip of wood used to strengthen something or make it secure 2. a strip of wood used for holding a tarpaulin in place over a hatch on a ship Verb to strengthen or fasten with battens [French bâton stick] batten 2 Verb (foll. by on)to thrive at the expense of (someone else) [probably from Old Norse batna to improve]
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batten Translations (NAUT) → junquillo, sable m batten down vt (Naut); (Naut) (on sail) → Segellatte f batten down vt (Naut); (NAUT) → serretta: (on sail) → stecca batten down vt (NAUT): to batten down the hatches → chiudere i boccaporti |
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If not, the men were lying drunk below, where I might batten them down, perhaps, and do what I chose with the ship. At first she would have nothing to do with his wicked scheme, for she was of a good natural disposition; {30} moreover there was a bard with her, to whom Agamemnon had given strict orders on setting out for Troy, that he was to keep guard over his wife; but when heaven had counselled her destruction, Aegisthus carried this bard off to a desert island and left him there for crows and seagulls to batten upon--after which she went willingly enough to the house of Aegisthus. This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless. |
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