1. Sailors wear oilskins in stormy weather.

2. To help me see through the stormy weather."

3. Stormy weather prevented any play in today's tennis.

4. Stormy weather stopped the ship from making headway.

5. 11 Stormy weather prevented any play in today's tennis.

6. It would also be easy to take down and stow in stormy weather.

7. It had been a night of stormy weather, with torrential rain and high winds.

8. A strong shutter or plate fastened over a ship's porthole cabin window in stormy weather.

9. Used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather Familiarity information: Choppiness used as a noun is very rare.

10. Batten (n.) "strip of wood, bar nailed across parallel boards to hold them together," 1650s, Englished variant of baton "a stick, a staff" (see baton).Nautical sense "strip of wood nailed down over a tarpaulin over a ship's hatches to prevent leakage in stormy weather" is attested from 1769.