Batten

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To cause (an animal, etc.) to become fat or thrive through plenteous feeding; to fatten.

   “VVe drove a field, and both together heard / VVhat time the Gray-fly vvinds her ſultry horn, / Batt'ning our flocks vvith the freſh devvs of night, […]”

2. fiil To enrich or fertilize (land, soil, etc.).

   “[O]thers [i.e., rivers] ariſing and running thorovv this Shire, doe ſo batten the ground, that the Medovves euen in the midſt of VVinter grovv greene; […]”

3. fiil To become better; to improve in condition; especially of animals, by feeding; to fatten up.

   “No, let him batten; when his tongue / Once goes, a cat is not worse strung.”

4. fiil Of land, soil, etc.: to become fertile; also, of plants: to grow lush.
5. fiil Followed by on: to eat greedily; to glut.

   “Could you on this faire Mountaine leaue to feed, / And batten on this Moore?”

6. fiil Followed by on: to prosper or thrive, especially at the expense of others.

   “Robber barons who battened on the poor”

7. fiil To gloat at; to revel in.
8. fiil To gratify a morbid appetite or craving.

   “[H]opes he may / VVith charmes, like Æson, haue his youth reſtor'd: / And vvith theſe thoughts ſo battens, as if fate / VVould be as eaſily cheated on, as he, / And all turnes aire!”

9. sıfat Synonym of battle (“of grass or pasture: nutritious to cattle or sheep; of land (originally pastureland) or soil: fertile, fruitful”).

   “The Soile for the moſt part is lifted vp into many hilles, parted aſunder vvith narrovv and ſhort vallies, and a ſhallovv earth doth couer their out-ſide, vvhich by a Sea-vveede called Orevvood, and a certaine kinde of fruitfull Sea-ſand, they make ſo ranke and batten, as is vncredible.”

10. isim 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.
11. isim 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.
12. isim 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.

    “The next morning, we took the battens from the hatches, and opened the ship.”

13. isim The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
14. fiil To furnish (something) with battens (noun etymology 2, noun sense 1).
15. fiil Chiefly followed by down: to fasten or secure (a hatch, opening, etc.) using battens (noun etymology 2, noun sense 2.2).

    “Nail down the lid; caulk the seams; pay over the same with pitch; batten them down tight, and hang it with the snap-spring over the ship's stern. Were ever such things done before with a coffin?”

16. özel isim A surname.