battening Definition

hatches, scarper, quailed, wriggling, ossifying, desiccating, slither, clamber, ravening, crenelated, sloshes, barnacled, escaping, interloping, spawning, swooping, tyrannise, slinking, unglue, chivvy, insulate, squeeze, matchwood, weathers, shrivelling, lurk, skulks, beetling, flounders, thieving, outsmarting, conspires, closeting, hunker, camouflaging, scurry, surfeited, parasitize, encaged, sucking, chummed, scudded, coddles, lining, easting, lures, connive, ramify, gibing, infesting, frittering, unbarred, overpopulate, freeloading, marauding, encysted, engorging, strangulating, loll, overexploit, teeming, reinfect, jostle, gulling, disgorging, overbalancing, waterlog, putrefy, leeching, buffeting, reefed, decoying, entrapping, sheltering, enfolding, debauching, swarming, snuffle, anthropomorphise, eddying, blusters, buccaneering, overhangs, unlatches, crawling, counterweighted, heaving, finish, lie, heard, flocks, dews, secure, bracketing, batten down, batton, counterlath, crowfoot, deal, fasten,