Battened is valid Scrabble Word

Is battened a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is battened valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for BATTENED in dictionary:

VERB:

BATTEN, to fasten with strips of wood
strengthen or fasten (something) with battens
thrive or prosper at the expense of

NOUN:

a long flat strip of squared timber or metal used to hold something in place or as a fastening against a wall.
a strip of wood or plastic used to stiffen and hold the leech of a sail out from the mast.
a strip of wood or metal for securing a tarpaulin over a ship's hatchway.

Words related to BATTENED

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How to use BATTENED in a sentence

I pictured Monica to myself, gathering her roses on a breathless summer afternoon, and returned to the house feeling like a battened version of the Reverend Laurence Sterne.
Truly, the Jews of that day battened on religion as did we on fighting and feasting.
As soon as this was done, I ordered a crew shipped, and the hatches battened on.
As for the ship, she had been cleared the day the hatches were battened down.
During the new conflict between Turkey and Russia, the Russian armies occupied and battened upon the Rumanian provinces for six years.
Far better that the best that was in her should out and shine than be battened under hatches and kept out of sight.
We battened down the engine-room hatch, and the sea rose to it and over it and climbed perilously near to the cabin companion-way and skylight.
MacRae battened his hatch covers, started his engine, heaved up the hook, and hauled out of the bay.
For three days and nights we remained between, decks, with the hatches battened down, not knowing but that each moment might be our last.
With the dome windows battened tightly, we lifted from the landing stage and soared over the glowing city.

The main body is 10 feet high, to the roof, vertically boarded and battened.
The sides are covered with boards laid vertically, and battened with narrow strips, 3 inches wide.
Clearly, a storekeeper from some remote village, where he has battened on the necessities of his neighbors for years, till he has got bloated like an ancient spider in its web.
The buttress shown in the illustration is of stone and the front wall that it supports is slightly battened.
The other pearl buyers and myself, between seas, managed to get about fifteen women and children into the cabin, and battened down.
You see, when we discovered the fire, we battened down immediately to suffocate the fire.
I was surprised when the fire first broke out and we battened down.
To my surprise, I found that her hatches were battened down as in ships ready for the sea.
Ventilators were quickly brought to their places, and later even the hatches were battened down.
I had all hands piped on deck and we battened down everything loose to make ready for a storm.
When the hold was full of cat the hatch was battened down and we felt good.
The sides, which were about 18 inches high, were each made of two boards firmly battened together.

Similar words containing BATTEN without suffix ed

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