secure the hatches

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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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

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 Melville, Herman

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 Cooper, James Fenimore