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.
A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
The top of a ridge.
The spine of an animal.
The back of the blade on a scythe.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.