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Definition:{n} a strip of i.e. wood fastened to something to hold it securely in place---{v} To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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The pampered monarch lay battening in ease.
Garth.
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Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions.
Emerson.
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a famished convalescent who has already begun to batten upon all the dishes that are still forbidden him, I asked myself whether marriage with Albertine would not spoil my life,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]
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Epiton: No, let him batten; when his tongue / Once goes, a cat is not worse strung.
John Lyly. Endimion; or the Man on the Moon (1596)
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Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor?
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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she’ll do forty such things in an hour (an you listen to her) for her recreation, if the toy take her in the greasy kerchief: it makes her fat, you see; she battens with it.
Ben Jonson. Bartholomew Fair (1614)
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