armor vs freeboard

armor

noun
  • The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion. 

  • A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces. 

  • Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft. 

  • A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle. 

  • A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively. 

  • A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body. 

verb
  • To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening. 

  • To provide something with an analogous form of protection. 

freeboard

noun
  • The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam). 

  • The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level. 

  • A type of skateboard which simulates the movement of a snowboard when used on a downhill coarse, allowing snowboarding techniques, which has an addition of two centerline casters that extend below the traditional skateboard wheels and bogies. 

  • The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel. 

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