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Batten :: Batten (n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc..

Feather :: Feather (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline..

Fortify :: Fortify (v. t.) To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.

Forehook :: Forehook (n.) A piece of timber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook..

Roboration :: Roboration (n.) The act of strengthening.

Corroborative :: Corroborative (n.) A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.

Fortify :: Fortify (v. t.) To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces..

Stomaching :: Stomachic (n.) A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.

Stalked :: Stalk (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.

Munite :: Munite (v. t.) To fortify; to strengthen.

Coak :: Coak (n.) A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave.

Harden :: Harden (v. i.) To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense..

Bellyband :: Bellyband (n.) A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail..

Able :: Able (a.) To make able; to enable; to strengthen.

Pile :: Pile (v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

Buttress :: Buttress (n.) Anything which supports or strengthens.

Table :: Table (v. t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

Witherband :: Witherband (n.) A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow..

Fan :: Fan (n.) That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion..

Forted :: Forted (a.) Furnished with, or guarded by, forts; strengthened or defended, as by forts..

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