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 small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
A friend; a mate.
To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs.