An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
A place of confrontation.
to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port
A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
A raised causeway.
Any small body of water.
Any fence or hedge.
Any navigable watercourse.
A beaver's dam.
Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
A non-heterosexual woman.
Any watercourse.
A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
A jetty; a pier.
A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
To scour a watercourse.
To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.