batten down

Verb

 * 1)  To close or make watertight, referring to hatches and cargo.
 * 2)  To secure.
 * 3)  To prepare for adversity.

Usage notes

 * In transitive senses the object may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.

Translations

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