Batten vs. Land

To become fat.

The solid ground of the earth.

To thrive and prosper, especially at another's expense

Ground or soil

To fatten; overfeed.

A topographically or functionally distinct tract

(Nautical) To furnish, fasten, or secure with battens

A nation; a country.

One of several flexible strips of wood or plastic placed in pockets at the outer edge of a sail to keep it flat.

The people of a nation, district, or region.

A narrow strip of wood used to fasten down the edges of the material that covers hatches in foul weather.

Lands Territorial possessions or property.

A narrow strip of wood used in construction, especially to cover a seam between boards, as flooring material, or as a lath.

Public or private landed property; real estate.

The heavy swinging bar on a loom that holds the reed and is pulled forward to pack down the weft.

(Law) The solid material of the earth as well as the natural and manmade things attached to it and the rights and interests associated with it.

A flat stick used in weaving by hand to separate the upper and lower threads of the warp and to tighten the weft.

An agricultural or farming area

(intransitive) To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.

Farming considered as a way of life.

To feed (on); to revel (in).

An area or realm

(intransitive) To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.

The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

(intransitive) To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.

To bring to and unload on land

(intransitive) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.

To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface

(transitive) To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.

(Informal) To cause to arrive in a place or condition

(transitive) To fertilize or enrich, as land.

To catch and pull in (a fish)

To furnish with battens.

(Informal) To win; secure

(nautical) To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.

(Informal) To deliver

A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.

To come to shore

(nautical) A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc., used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.

To disembark

(theater) In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.

To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

(Informal) To arrive in a place or condition

To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.

To come to rest in a certain way or place

To fertilize or enrich, as land.

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.

Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.

To furnish or fasten with battens.

A country or region.

A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling;

A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

Stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber

Realm, domain.

A strip fixed to something to hold it firm

(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

Furnish with battens;

A shock or fright.

Secure with battens;

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.

(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

Lant; urine

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

(intransitive) To come into rest.

(intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.

(transitive) To bring to land.

To capture or arrest.

(transitive) To acquire; to secure.

To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.

(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect

(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

Urine. See Lant.

The solid part of the surface of the earth; - opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

The inhabitants of a nation or people.

The mainland, in distinction from islands.

The ground or floor.

The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.

The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; - called also landing.

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.

To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.

To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.

To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.

To reach and come to rest on land after having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane landed in Washington.

The land on which real estate is located;

Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use);

The solid part of the earth's surface;

Territory over which rule or control is exercised;

The territory occupied by a nation;

A domain in which something is dominant;

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use;

The people who live in a nation or country;

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)

Working the land as an occupation or way of life;

Reach or come to rest;

Cause to come to the ground;

Bring into a different state;

Bring ashore;

Deliver (a blow);

Arrive on shore;

Shoot at and force to come down;

Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land;

Operating or living or growing in water;