Crossword-Solution: BATTENS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BATTENS | anagram | TESTBAN |
We have 15 clues for the answer “BATTENS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fastening strips | 1 answer |
| Grows fat | 1 answer |
| JOINERY, names of timber sizes used in | 1 answer |
| Sail stiffeners | 1 answer |
| Secures at sea | 1 answer |
| Secures with strips | 1 answer |
| Secures, as a ship's hatches | 1 answer |
| Secures, as hatches | 1 answer |
| Secures, in a way, with "down" | 1 answer |
| Supporting strips in construction | 1 answer |
| Thrives; grows fat. | 1 answer |
| Wooden reinforcing strips | 1 answer |
| Fastens (down) | 3 answers |
| Fastens | 17 answers |
| Secures. | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BATTENS (5)
Batten door (Arch.), a door made of boards of the whole length of the door, secured by battens nailed crosswise.
Without, we heard men beating desperately on the Ark with their weapons, and some even climbed by the battens to the top and wrenched to try and move the door from its fastenings.
The lower portion is plated with duralumin sheets and the upper part is covered with canvas attached to light wooden battens to give the necessary shape.
For a net was substituted a simple contrivance, consisting of two side pockets, running the length of the balloon, and containing battens of wood, to which were affixed the suspension cords, bands being also sewn over the upper part of the balloon connecting the two pockets.
Battens is the oldest here—that is to say, the oldest of the old gentlemen—in point of residence.’ She had a way of passing her hands over and under one another as she spoke, that was not only tidy but propitiatory; so I asked her if I might look at her little sitting-room? She willingly replied Yes, and we went into it together: she leaving the door open, with an eye as I understood to the social proprieties.
Quotes with BATTENS (2)
Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle. The cr…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1954–2022).