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 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 decouple; to remove a link from, or separate the links of.
To delete (a file).
A link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.