Dictionary entry

Batten

Pronunciation: /ˈbat(ə)n/

Pronunciation

/ˈbat(ə)n/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ဇလီ။ သင်္ဘော မာလကာပေါက် အဖုံးပိတ် သည့် ကန့်လန့်ကျင်။ (v) ဇလီသတ်သည်။

Definition

batten 1 /'bætn/ n ၁။ ဇလီ။ ၂။ သေဘၤာ မာလကာေပါက္ အဖံုးပိတ္ သည့္ ကန္႔လန္႔က်င္။ v ~ sth (down) (esp on a ship) ဇလီသတ္သည္။ batten down the hatches (eg when a storm is expected). batten 2 /'bætn/ v ❏ batten on sb [ PHRV ] ( esp derog ) သူတစ္ပါးလုပ္စာ ထိုင္စားသည္။ Instead of getting a job, she battened on her rich relatives.

Examples

  1. The ship had battened down
  2. ready for the storm.
  3. The plastic sheeting can be used to cover a roof but it has to be securely battened down.
  4. With interest rates set to rise
  5. it’s time to batten down our budgets.