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.
A defensive wall or rampart.
A defense or safeguard.
A breakwater.
Any means of defence or security.
To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
To provide protection of defense for something.
The position of a ship laid on one side.
To tilt on one side.
To tilt or lean while in motion.
To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.