Definition of "battened" [battened]

• Simple past tense and past participle of batten. (verb)

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• "Before fixing up the cupboards the walls should be made perfectly dry, and, if they are not so, they should be battened, that is, covered with canvass strained over slips of wood nailed to the walls, strong brown paper being afterwards pasted over the canvass."
• "So they're taking all kinds of precautions to make sure that stuff is kind of battened down."
• "Elsewhere in Wisconsin, restaurants moved sidewalk furniture indoors and homeowners battened down anything that might blow away."