To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.
To furnish with battens.
To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.
To fertilize or enrich, as land.
To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.
To feed (on); to revel (in).
To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.
A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc., used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.
The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
To fasten something with a chain.
To link multiple items together.
To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
To obligate.
To secure someone with fetters.
To load and automatically run (a program).
To be chained to another data item.
A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
A long measuring tape.
A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
A livery collar, a chain of office.
The warp threads of a web.
A series of interconnected things.