batten down

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   furnish with battens

   “batten ships”

   Synonymsbattensecure

   Broaderstrengthen

Questions about batten down

What does batten down mean?

batten down means "furnish with battens".

What is another word for batten down?

Close synonyms include batten, secure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is batten down a common word?

batten down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.