英语词汇batten的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	batten
词源	batten; batten down the hatches. A batten is simply a sawed strip of wood. This word gives us the nautical phrase batten down the hatches, for battens were once used to fasten canvas over a ship’s hatchways during a storm. The phrase probably originated in the early 18th century.
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