An obstacle or impediment.
A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
The lists in a tournament.
A structure that bars passage.
A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
A boundary or limit.
To block or obstruct with a barrier.
A defense or safeguard.
A defensive wall or rampart.
A breakwater.
Any means of defence or security.
The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
To provide protection of defense for something.