The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
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.
In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
To furnish with battens.
To fasten or secure a hatch etc using 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 hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
A skewer.
A misty shower; dew.
A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
To be misty; to drizzle.
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
To skewer food, for roasting over a fire