secure the hatches
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This part of the arrangement completed, I ate a hearty breakfast, when I began to secure the hatches, as a sort of floor, on my primitive joists.
From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper
And though the first conceit, as the last, was a mere surmise, it was nevertheless deemed prudent to secure the hatches, which for the present we accordingly barred down with the oars of our boat.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
To secure the hatches; are padlocked and sealed.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
