vt to fertilize or enrich, as land.
2. batten ·vt to furnish or fasten with battens.
3. batten ·vi to grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
4. batten ·vt to make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
5. batten ·vt the movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
6. batten ·noun a strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) ·pl (com. & arch.) sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. brande & c. (b) (naut.) a strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) a long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, ·etc.