of Batten
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhy should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house? George Bernard Shaw
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality. Elizabeth Bowen
Hurricane Isaias slammed into North Carolina bringing life-threatening storm surges and leaving more than 350,000 homes without power, as the US eastern seaboard battened down for flash floods and destructive winds. Source: Internet
Buyout firms spent the bulk of the second quarter battened down as they assessed the economic damage of the shutdown on the companies they own… Those in need conserved cash, drew down revolving-credit facilities or sought rescue financing. Source: Internet